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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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