Real Heroes Make World Safe for Fakes
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As a fighter pilot in Korea who flew 100 combat missions, I’ve always felt a little uneasy about a society that can deify a thinly credentialed portrayer of war, yet can just as easily relegate the memory of 50,000 Americans who died in Korea to an almost forgotten footnote in history.
Write on, Miles Corwin.
VICTOR M. MATLOFF
Corone del Mar
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