First Line: MUST WE BELIEVE THAT WHAT ASCENDS ASPIRES? Last Line: INTO A MISTY FOREST OF A CLOUD Subject(s): SOLDIERS; NATIVE AMERICANS; WORLD WAR II; DEATH;
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