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" I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. "

George McGovern

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" I met my wife in South Dakota. "

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" I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. "

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