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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

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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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Good
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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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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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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