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“Last summer,” journalist Ernie Pyle said in 1945, “I wrote that I hoped the end of the war could be a gigantic relief, but not an elation. In the joyousness of high spirits it is so easy for us to forget the dead.” That was a relief that he knew was simply unavailable to many and a forgetting that shouldn’t be allowed to any. - 5 June 2019, David Chrisinger, New York Times

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