Batteries not included

The crime scene was, in a word, bereft. Longdale Town Hall’s main meeting chamber looked like it had been hit by a tiny, precise, and deeply inconsiderate neutron bomb

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"You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men." - George S. Patton Jr.

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"I am sorry that the movements of the armies cannot keep pace with the expectations of the editors of papers." - Robert E. Lee

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“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.” - George S. Patton Jr.

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