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Letter to an unknown soldier will be archived here, as part of 1418 now, until 2018. Epitaph for a superman, script by jack oleck, art by maurice whitman. Praise rarely have timeless conservative values been articulated and defended with this sort of clarity and vigor. A selection of the letters has also been published as a book, which you can find out more about on the publishers website. When the cold war ended with the fall of the berlin wall, the washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a worldhistorical struggle. Okand soldat or unknown soldiers is a war novel by finnish author vaino linna, considered his magnum opus.
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