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You, sir, are one of the reasons we will pull through this imbroglio.

I get it that this is basically Dec. 8, 1941, and we are - to change tropes, those in the Song of Roland. But, then, that is precisely where true heros are found, viz, in the breach. Or to change tropes again:

I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know.

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