Bastogne, Belgium, in 1944
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War doesn\u2019t determine who\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
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War determines who\u2019s left.<\/p>\n
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And that\u2019s no small thing. \u00a0It was good, seventy years ago, that the Allies were left rather than the Nazis and the Fascists.<\/p>\n
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