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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Aberration
Turned
Divisions
Cold
Europeans
Longer
Hostile
War
Note
America
Division
Borders
Quickly

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