Pay your debts. The firefighters, police officers, and emergency workers who raced toward the danger that others fled, or tried to flee, bestowed by their sacrifice an obligation on the rest of us. The soldiers who embarked to distant, dangerous lands, to take the war to our enemies and away from us, away from our loved ones, bestowed an obligation on us. So, too, did the soldiers on Peleliu, in Korea, in Vietnam, and in all the savage battles in all the wars of our history. They are blood debts we owe. They’re not a trifling thing. They should not be memories recalled just for our
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