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MinM

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6. Catch-22

Reply to RufusTFirefly (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 30, 2014, 11:32 PM

Jul 2014

JFK probably would have lived longer had he not tried to push so hard for peace. Then again if he had not pushed back against those who had a death wish for the world there never would have been events like this speech for others to aspire..

Of course the same was probably true for many brave souls throughout history. Just in the past fifty years since Kennedy we've had Martin Luther King Jr., Anwar Sadat, Yatzhik Rabin, and Benazir Bhutto just to name a few.

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