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The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'

David B. Haight

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David B. Haight
Age: 97 †
Born: 1906
Born: September 2
Died: 2004
Died: July 31
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