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braddy

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4. Yes, the U.S. Army with bayonets. America in the 50s was made up of tough people who had lived

Reply to Bayard (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 22, 2019, 11:29 AM

Nov 2019

hard lives and seen the Depression, lots of war during the 40s and first half of the 50s and were in the fight of their lives with global communism that had recently conquered about a third or quarter of the human race.

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