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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

- General Douglas MacArthur

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ORO
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Operations Room Officer


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Today in Military History

August 3



1914:

Germny declares war on France, Order for British mobilization


1941:

100,000 Soviet troops encircled in the Uman pocket


2005:

Sgt. (ret) Ernest A. SMOKEY Smith VC OBC, Canada's last Victoria Cross Recipeint dies in Vancouver BC at age 91




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