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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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