I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them–and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them, over and over. If I could have thought the words "the bright day is done and we are for the dark, " I’d have been consoled somehow and ready to go out and contend with circumstance–instead of my heart sinking to my shoes. Mary Ann Shaffer
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