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My first book was the book that changed my life.

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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
Biographer
Essayist
Historian
University Teacher
Decatur
Illinois
Stephen Edward Ambrose
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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