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Dear Sgt. GRIT and company,
I just wanted to say thanks for all you do. I served with 1st
Force in Nam in 1969-1970. I just had the greatest pleasure back
in November 08.
I was able to go back to MCRD San Diego to watch my oldest
grandson graduate from boot camp. He was home on leave for 10
days and we had the usual get together with family and friends.
For him becoming a Marine, I wrapped the medals I received and
the gold jump wings I earned and presented them to him for
safekeeping. The look on his face was worth the tour in Nam. I
am a proud Marine and a prouder grandfather. Again I thank you
for all you do for our Marines. Here's wishing you all good
health and a very good life.
SEMPER FI,
Daryl Herzberg
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Dear Sgt Grit:
Few occasions are as memorable and festive as a wedding,
especially one where the 300 guests and the entire region were
evacuated in the path of last year's Hurricane Gustav just 5
days earlier. We all returned home to find no power, no food,
other than canned, and no personnel including venue caretakers,
bakers, florists and hotels employees. In addition, we had lost
four days of valuable preparation time.
At one point, we had
people in the air, flying from four different states and no
place to board them. Miraculously, all the pieces feel back into
place just in time and people were calling it the miracle
wedding. If you had seen it all in a movie, you would never have
believed it.
Take a look a the photos and witness a very happy Marine wedding party, including my son the groom, 2nd Lt Robert M Locke.
Semper Fidelis
Robert Locke
Marine Dad
My husband, Bob, was a SGT and a 6 yr disabled vet in the Marine
Corps.
He served almost 3 yrs in the jungles of Viet Nam. He was proud
to be a Marine, and proud of being a former Marine. Needless to
say I was proud of him and the Corps. Bob passed away in Aug 08,
he was only 66.
The Corps was on guard at his coffin at the funeral home, blew
taps at the cemetery and 2 folded the flag and a Sgt presented
me with the flag. The Corps takes care of their own, I am proud
to be part of the family.
Mrs. Robert Cook
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the
dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it
was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for
they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
hi i am a proud parent of cpl jessica a bradley george she was
at camp Lejeune nc she has been in for 4 yrs. and been over sea
and got hurt but came back safe her daddy and i is very proud of
her and the Marines that is in. because freedom is not free. she
has seen the world she got married to a Marine and they have a
little boy now i miss her and her family. thank you and the
Marines for what you do God be with you
Deborah
I truly admire your acumen in finding a niche ( Marines and our
enthusiasm for our beloved Corps ) and running with it. Yes,
these are hard times right now, but does this sound
familiar...Improvise, Adapt, Overcome. I try to live by these
words. I'm one of the statistics you've been reading about - I
was laid off a month ago after ten years on the job but rather
than sit around on my hands and mope I'm using the training I
received in the Marines to do whatever it takes. Were it easy,
anyone could do it. If I was 37 years younger, I'd reenlist in a
heartbeat. I'm not trying to suggest being a Marine is all fun
and games ( I know better! ), but it's the price you have to pay
to be among the world's finest! I also appreciate your mention
of the Marine Corps League in your outstanding newsletter.
Typically, by time I've read it, I've laughed and cried. I
really look forward to it every week. Being the Sgt. at Arms of
our Detachment is one of the things I'm proudest of.
Thanks!
Saepe Expertus
Semper Fidelis
Fratres Aeterni
Dave Whitlock
Sgt. at Arms
Billy Stelpflug Detachment ( 1064 )
Marine Corps League
USMC 1971-1974
"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union
or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as
monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
Sgt Grit,
I entered the Corps in June of 1970, straight from high school,
I was 17. After Comm School (I was a 2533), I was sent to Camp
Schwab, Okinawa and H&S 2/9. We went on float that summer and
spent enough time in Viet Namese waters to get a ribbon.
Upon returning to the states, I spent 5 weeks at Marine Barracks
Treasure Island and last eleven months at Marine Barracks North
Island. The whole time with 2/9 and at the Marine Barracks, I
felt like a Veteran even though I hadn't been under fire.
When I got out and went to college, there was a Veteran's Club
that I joined. I was totally accepted by these men who had been
"in country". I was even elected Treasurer. After college, I was
never really around military people. I started to feel guilty
and that I really shouldn't consider myself a veteran because
I'd never been shot at. I didn't want to join any military clubs
or organizations.
In 1984, I went to work for the Postal Service at the main
processing center in Santa Ana, CA. There was a large number of
Marines working there. Most of them retired who had spent
multiple tours in Viet Nam. I was not treated any differently
because I hadn't been in country. I didn't notice any different
treatment of Cold War Marines. We were all just Marines. My
feelings of guilt subsided.
In 1994 I transferred back to my home state. Not having a
history of belonging to organizations like the Legion and VFW, I
didn't join. My feelings of guilt returned. Until I confessed my
feelings to a friend I made at Union conferences. This was a man
I respected, a Green Beret. He basically convinced me I had no
reason to feel guilt.
Not long after, I was in a Sporting goods store, when one of the
employees noticed my SGT Grit cap. He asked me about my service
and asked if I was a member of the VFW. I mentioned my
reservations about being a Vet. He said Bull! and paid for 1st
year membership. The members, all with more "experience" than I
made me feel welcome. In fact, I had been going less than five
months when I was elected Junior Vice Commander. (I didn't run,
I was railroaded)
What I'm trying to get at is maybe we need the fellowship of
fellow Marines or men and women from other services. I know I
get along better with my coworkers who have served in the
military.
Rob Popp
CPL
sgt.grit
i am the daughter of a family of Marines, now im the mother of 2
wonderful Marines, both my sons are Marines, i just wanted
people to know how much i enjoy reading these newsletters, this
is a great magazine and website, my dad who is a retired Marine
now told me about this site, its great
semper-fi,
debra rodriguez
Sgt. Grit:
A letter this week in newsletter #193..stuck a small fork in me.
I would like to thank Kara Peterson for the service her family
members have given to our country, and welcome her son into the
folds of our Marine Family. Even though he can't be a pilot, and
I have doubts he can be a sniper with the color blindness...it
seems he will be happy being a grunt...I know I would have been.
But in 1966, I had no choice in the matter.
In 1980 when I joined the Army, I wanted Tanks, and that's what
they gave me. I was behind in child support and the $3500.00
bonus the Army gave me took care of that....but in '66 I played
the hand the Corps dealt me, I tried to get out of it, because
it was a lowly job with no honor in it. I spent 3 years in the
Marines, and initially flunked the school the Corps sent me to
for that MOS, I graduated 49th out of a class of 48...the man in
front of me could not speak English.
In that 3 years, I spent 5 months in Vietnam...where, because of
my MOS, I earned the total respect of the 88 men in my
Battery...they were proud to have me and I was proud to be their
Battery cook.........Mrs. Paterson...every job in the Marine
Corps or the US Army is there for a reason....now-a-days cooks
are contract civilians, but back in the day...on Sundays..if it
was not raining, the men in my battery took me down to the
beach, cooked my steak for me and made sure there was always a
cold brew in my hand...because the other 6 days of the week, I
filled their bellies with good food. I did the JOB the Marine
Corps gave me to do...as I did in the National Guard for 3 years
after that in Demo..and for 2 years in the Army in Tanks. And
what ever job the Corps will give your son to do...he will
do...with Pride..because the job is needed...just like grease
monkeys, truck drivers, and cooks.
L/Cpl Mark Gallant
2200015
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the
spines of others are often stiffened."
B. Graham
my husband died suddenly of a massive heart attack Sunday. he
was Marine Force Recon and did 3 tours in Vietnam. he did a lot
of other things that were classified but suffice to say he
qualifies as a hero like all Marines do.
he was larger in life and in death, he has become a legend to
me. this photo, though you cannot see the writing on his shirt,
is one from i got him from Sgt. Grit. it says "University of
Vietnam." i just wanted to post this so other Marines will keep
Carl and his family in their prayers. he is now standing
alongside his mates in Heaven guarding the gates. he was so
vital and important to me. he took my heart when he passed.
I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'.
Thanks for thinking of us in-between-the-conflicts GI's, where
there were really no "Heroes" but we were at-the-ready to become
so. I graduated from MCRD SD in 1956 and did my nine years
(they had plenty of time to have a war) as I watched world
conflict all around us. I was at Pendleton in 1956 with my
seabag packed, on 24 hour alert for deployment to Beirut -
fortunately this did not happen. However, as everyone knows,
some 20-30 years later we lost many good Marines there.
Then, in 1962 it was discovered that Nikita Khrushchev of the
Soviet Union was sending components for surface-to-surface
nuclear missiles to Cuba. An act that created an incident that
led us closer to nuclear war than at any other time. The entire
country was at the brink of nuclear annihilation - we were all
hanging in the balance of Nikita's action to President
Kennedy's response to this aggression. Fortunately Nikita
backed down. The world was truly at the mercy of these two
world powers.
Though of a lesser magnitude, there continued to be hot spots of
potential conflagration, world wide, even after 1974. So let's
not forget the post-Vietnam Veterans as cold war respondents.
Many have forgotten - and many are not old enough to have lived
through this period - where we grew up practicing nuclear attack
survival skills as children in school. Now it's a new kind of
"cold war" threat, for you never know where or what or when the
enemy is likely to strike - in the form of terrorism. This
country must continue to provide the kind of men and women who
make up our armed forces if the United States of America is to
remain the vanguard of world freedom - who else is going to do
it?
Finally, with all the evil or Wolves (back to the Sheep and
Wolves story) are we not always in some kind of Cold War? We
continually need to enlist the aid of the Sheep Dogs. Is Devil
Dog out and is Sheep Dog in, as the new epithet for Marines? Do
I need to change the patch on my cap?
This old cold war Marine would love to have a Cold War Marine T,
even though I am considered a Vietnam "Era" vet because of my
time having overlapped the cut-off date (or start date, if you
will). However, my Pacific tour never got me past Okinawa. As a
matter of fact, not only did I miss the Korean war by a year or
so, I also missed out on the fabled Chesty run on the Zuit
Suiters of Los Angeles, CA by the Marines at Pendleton - now
that might have been some cool kind of duty. Is there anyone
out there who can confirm that episode?
Sgt. Grit, I don't have any ideas emblazoned on my feeble old
mind, but I hope this message will inspire other's gears to
start turning.
Thanks to you for this forum.
Bless us all,
jerry wilson
Simper Fi
Hi Grit
I am friends with a retired navy captain who told me that the
soviets stayed on their side of the fence because Cold Warriors
like the two of us stared back from our side.
Semper Fi
Paul Gleason LCpl USMC not as lean...
PS your first letter describes my old Master Gunny Cockerell,
promoted to Captain during'Nam, back to enlisted afterwards
retired as a Captain
I am a grandma of a "new Marine" he graduated MCRD October
10,2008. He has gotten stationed at Twenty Nine Palms, CA and
will be deployed in September to Afghanistan, I enjoy reading
the letters sent from the ones that have served our country, and
pray for each and everyone for safety, peace, health, warmth,
love, and an understanding that we here in the States are living
because they are serving.
Thank You to each of you who have served are serving and getting
ready to serve.
One Proud Grandma
In Texas
Sgt
I enjoy reading your newsletters, it brings back so many
memories that I have shelved for so many years. My son joined
back in 2003. He was with 2/2 and did 2 tours. After 36 years of
sucking it up I have finally settled with my ghosts. Watching my
young Marine and the way he carries himself today has and always
will be the proudest days of my life. But like we say 'Once a
Marine Always a Marine'!
Semper Fi
Bob 1/24
"Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be
disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may
well win the race that runs by himself."
--Benjamin Franklin
Sgt Grit,
There were some letters from "Cold War" Marines in your recent
letters.
I fall in that category myself. I served 1953-1955. Instead of
the term "Cold War" I use the term "The Quiet Years". I have
always maintained that my greatest disappointment was not having
combat experience with my beloved Corps. The closest I came was
when the Chinese Communists were shelling the Islands of Quemoy
(Formosa). We, the 4th Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine
Division, was moved from Nara Japan to Kaneohe Bay Hawaii to
train as the initial striking force. We were beefed up with
Amtracks out Korea and Artillery out of Okinawa. It never
transpired. What a let-down. Too, I tried to volunteer as a
gunner on a helicopter during Vietnam but was turned down. They
were concerned about my age.
Even though I never made it into combat, and didn't make the
Corps a career I did complete my Military service in the Army
and Navy Reserves.
I told both outfits that every Reserve Unit in the U.S. deserves
at least one good Marine to keep them squared away and I'm
yours.
In addition to the Reserve time I have been a member of the
Marine Corps League for 20 years. Too, I have recruited several
young men on my own whom I thought would be worthy to wear the
EGA, one of them is my Grandson who will soon be deployed to
Iraq (I told him to tell his CO I would be more than willing to
take his place).
Life is not always fair. Wars and conflicts do not always
follow one's own time table, you just have to roll with the
punches. I was there in the event I was needed and was ready
and willing to prove myself. I don't run around jumping any six
foot fences any more but one thing for sure, I'm a Marine for
life.
Stan Brangham
Cpl (E-3) of Marines
Gung-ho & Semper Fi
"This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers
of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither
have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but
from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of
England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants
from home, pursues their descendants still."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making
it more efficient, for I Mean to reduce its size. I do not
undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom.
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to
inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence
to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or
that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden."
Senator Barry Goldwater
Greetings Sgt of Marines,
1. "We did not write our orders, but we followed the orders
given"
2. "When was the last time the Marine Corps asked you what you
wanted to do?"
3. Cold war, hot war, how high, where at, it does not matter,
Marines get-er done!"
4. Cold war, Marines p!ss, moan, and b!tch, There're happy,
leave them alone!"
5. Marines eat, sleep, and thrive on training and hardships.
Cold war, hot war, its all the same to a Marine.
"The weak will inherit nothing. The strong will kick butt and
survive!"
"The Texas Top"
Semper Fi (Always Faithful)
Fratres Aeterni (Brothers Forever)
"Top" R. Plumlee, Sr.
Master Sergeant of Marines (Gold Wing) Airborne (Retired)
Still Lean, Mean, And Always A Marine!
"Attitude Is Everything"
The "Texas Top" says-----"Never Forget"!
Your request for ideas for the above line made me think of a
jacket my Marine vet hubby wore when I first met him. He was a
Marine Security Guard at the US Embassy in Oslo, Norway, where I
worked as a "local".
After first calling these guys "Navy guys" (Navy in Norwegian is
Marine, so I was confused...), and being firmly corrected, I had
lesson number two coming to me in the form of this jacket.
It said "Kill a Commie for Chesty".... Well, I knew what a
Commie was, but I had no clue about Chesty....
I do now, though. Berry got out after serving 8 years, but our
son (Cpl. David) is now in his 4th year of the same profession!
I am a proud Marine Mom now, and can educate people on who the
"Chesty" is in the cryptic saying "Good night, Chesty, wherever
you are"!
Ooorah!
Heidi Cantrell
The cold War was a like Marriage when things got pretty cold,
but you prayed it wouldn't end in the divorce.
Steve (Chip) Kramer
I'm sure you'll get this a thousand times; it's a Ronald Reagan
axiom "Trust . . . .but Verify".
Semper Fi
Doug Doscher
"Parade and reinforce the behavior you want others to emulate"
Armed Forces News
Two U.S. MARINES To Receive Posthumous Navy Cross Medals Two
U.S. Marines who died thwarting an attack upon their standing
post in Ramadi, Iraq, will receive posthumous Navy Cross medals
in a Feb. 20 ceremony at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Va.
The two Marines, Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter of Sag Harbor, N.Y.,
and Cpl. Jonathan T. Yale of Burkeville, Va., immediately
recognized the potential threat when they say a truck moving
toward their position at an entry-control point on April 22,
2008.
They fired upon the vehicle and stopped it before it could
breach the checkpoint, but not before a suicide bomber could
detonate the nearly 2,000 pounds of explosives it carried. The
blast killed Haerter and Yale.
Comrades credit them with saving their lives. Haerter was
assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment; Yale served with
2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
Both units are part of the Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based 2nd Marine
Division.
T.T. SHEAF SGT.
USMC 73-80
In response to Sam Hood's question if any other Iwo Jima Medal
of Honor recipients are still living I am happy to report that
George E. Whalen, Pharmacist's Mate Second Class, United States
Navy is still with us. He served with the Second Battalion, 26th
Marines, 5th Marine Division.
The Salt Lake City VA Medical Center is named for him. The book
"The Quite Hero: The Untold Medal Of Honor Story Of George E.
Whalen At The battle For Iwo Jima" tell of his actions during
the taking of Iwo Jima.
He certainly raised the bar for the Docs who followed after him.
Semper Fi
Doc Olive
"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
Benjamin Franklin
Sgt. Grit;
I was stationed on the MARDET USS Independence CV-62 and myself
and several of my fellow Marines are trying to locate as many of
former brothers as possible. Could you post a message in the
next newsletter for anyone who served on the MARDET USS
Independence from 1990 to 1995 to go to Facebook and sign up for
our group page there MARDET USS Independence CV-62. At a later
date will you make an announcement about a future reunion once
we know the date?
Semper Fi,
Cpl. Michael Hand
USMC 1991 to 1995
Cell: 970-985-8513
I was stationed on Oakie with A co 3rd Engineer Bn during the
early part of 1971 ( my 2nd tour over seas ).
We managed to catch a BLT ( 1/9 ) and visited several great
ports of call too.
It was just after my return to the rock that I began to receive
my series of shipping over lectures.
I'll never forget the first one when the SSgt. came into the NCO
section and sat me down. At that point the old man Capt. Hansen
wanted me to apply for warrant officer school.
I had other ideas and wanted to become a law enforcement officer
back here in Illinois. But the thing that stood out the most was
that just about all of the NCO's back then - were in fact
getting out that I can recall. No one wanted to stay in!
Anyway, my goals were set and I thanked them all for taking the
time.
I did follow my dream and just about within that year's time - I
put back on another uniform - the one called public safety
officer and completed 23 years with the final rank of First
Lieutenant at the time of retirement.
The best memories was being able to complete US Secret Service
POB school down in Glynco, Ga and helping to protect the
president of the United States times four when he came through
our town.
I guess you could call it "the making of a mustang-er the hard
way" !
Semper Fi
Gene Spanos
Lt. Retired Police & Fire
Sergeant of Marines 66/71
Rosemont Public Safety Dept 72/95
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
Thomas Jefferson
Dear Sgt Grit,
My hubby Jim, a Vietnam Recon Marine, and I usually go to
breakfast on Weds and meet up w/a friend of ours who is an Army
vet. On Weds John brings w/him an older gentleman, Jack. Jack
served as a pilot with the FLYING TIGERS in the China-Burma
theater. What a guy Jack is...always full of stories about what
Claire Chennault's 1st AVG was up to during the years he served.
Yesterday, as John was telling us something about using his
computer to track down a map site for one of his daughter's
friends who is currently living in Japan, he tried to come up
with the name that the Japanese call their districts, and it was
escaping him.
Jack quietly said: "I know what we called them..." And of
course John thought Jack would know the "correct term" he was
looking for... We got a chuckle as Jack pronounced: "TARGETS!"
Christine Armstrong
RE: Warden Was Not Happy
During my time in Japan I learned a Japanese parable about Mt.
Fuji. It well may apply to Jon Slayton's story:
"He who has never climbed Mt. Fuji is a fool. He who has climbed
it twice, was twice a fool!" Kinda like joining the Corps ...
But, I guess I'd be a fool.
Subject: Fw: North Platte Canteen -"Greatest Generation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07DGeLvDw8I
Some think America needs gov't programs to be great.
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for
themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over
the broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely the will be, by the better angels of
our nature."
Abraham Lincoln
"We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of
Earth."
Abraham Lincoln
Sgt,
A swabby friend and I were talking on a Cruise and we both came
to the same conclusion that the Oath we took when we Enlisted
didn't have a time limit attached to it. We promised to defend
our way of life, our Country, our Constitution, our flag against
all enemies foreign and domestic. I am sure that every Marine,
Sailor, Soldier and Airman feels the same. We sheepdogs need to
unite in our cause.
George Zigoris
Cpl of Marines 1958-1962
I served four years 1955-1959, High Depot Honor Platoon #74
during Cold War but will always wonder how I would have behaved
in combat. Would I have made my fellow Marines proud. Always
think I would have but will never know.
Jim Connor Sgt USMC
June 30, 1955 to June 30, 1959
Dear Sgt. Grit I have a friend, Ernie, who served in Korea
during the cold war. every Veterans Day I call him to thank him
for his service and to wish him a Happy Veterans Day. He says
"oh nothing happened" or " I didn't have much to do." I tell him
"nothing happened BECAUSE YOU were THERE." I thank him for
providing that which we all pray for, Peace.
They Also Serve, Who Only Stand And Wait.
Bill Fay
Proud parent of CPL Robert Fay (3 Iraq Tours)
"Act like you are his friend. Then kill him."
- Sheik Muburak Gilani explaining how to kill American infidels
Operation Dewey Canyon,
I'll be forever thinking of the Brave Warriors of Operation
Dewey Canyon and Marines, Corpsman that gave there lives on this
Operation. It was to you those that served before us we carried
the Traditions And Heart of the Corps. I'll be forever indebted
to those I served and carrying the Memory of Our Lost Brothers,
May they rest in Memory of our being but not for them they gave
us Life.
Semper Fidelis
Ken Miller
Mike 3/9 2nd Platoon
www.mike3-9.com
On February 11, 2009 a group of us from here at Sgt. Grit went
to visit the Veteran patients at the V.A. hospital in Oklahoma
City. I didn't quite know what to expect until we got in there
and started to visit the patients in each room. Our volunteer
tour guide, Barbara, took us to a couple of floors where we
passed out "goodie" bags to the veterans.
One Veteran in particular stands out in my mind. We gave him a
goodie bag thanking him for his service and asked how he was
doing. With a puzzled look on his face he thanked us wanting to
know who it was from.
When we explained it was from Sgt. Grit, he laughed and said
"well that's kind of funny because that's what I'm watching on
TV, "True Grit", the movie. Knowing ourselves this movie was the
reason that Sgt. Grit has this given name, we all looked at each
other with a little shock. The three of us standing in his room
looked behind the curtain blocking our view and sure enough,
there it was on his TV, "True Grit"!
After a few seconds of disbelief over what had just happened, we
explained how Sgt. Grit got his name and that it was all because
of that very movie he was watching! Wow, what an amazing moment
that I don't think any of us will ever forget!
When unexplained things like this happen, I believe it is for a
reason.
I know I will never forget the experience of meeting the
Veterans we did that day and simply saying thank you for their
service. I'm sure some of them will never forget the people,
ones they didn't even know who came by to say hi and thanked
them for their service. If it only touched one person and made
them feel like they were thought of, honored and appreciated
then it was well worth us going that day. It was a very humbling
and rewarding experience for me that day. I can't help but
wonder how it made them feel.
Written by: Sami Tipton
02/16/09
"If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we
destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
God Bless America!
Welcome Home Marine, Job Well Done.
Semper Fi
Sgt Grit
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