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Good Sunday Morning May 29
I hope that you all are having a great Memorial Day weekend.
I am off to the USS Midway very early in the morning to stand next to the F8 Crusader and answer questions on the airplane and tell folks what it was like to fly it. It seems like my bag of flight gear gets heavier each year. I have it all and it all fits. Lots of local Bubbas come and do the same thing each year. I am again missing my long time friend Worm and roommate on the 11 1/2 month Midway cruise in 72-73 who usually joins me but he has a commitment that he can't break. Since he is multi lingual I once again I will have to do with sign language and hand signals.
Regards,
Skip.
Taking Chance
Memorial Day is the day we remember and respect those that have given their lives in the service of our country. This is a story of how they find their way home to their families.
Taking Chance is a story about a Marine Lt Col escorting the body of a young Marine home after being killed overseas. I bought the DVD when it first came out and I was overwhelmed by it. Even now just watching the trailer I had trouble keeping it together. It was very well done
The actors especially Kevin Bacon did a marvelous job. I highly recommend it. But watch in a quiet respectful place…skip
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On This Day in Naval and Marine Corps History May 29
1781 During the American Revolution, the Continental frigate Alliance, under command of Capt. John Barry, battles HMS Atalanta and HMS Trepassy off Nova Scotia. After several broadsides by Alliance, the British ships surrender.
1844 The frigate Constitution, commanded by John Percival, sails from New York to depart on her 52,370 mile around-the-world cruise. Heading eastward, she visits places such as Brazil, Borneo, China, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Mexico before returning to Boston on September 27, 1846.
1863 During the Civil War, the side-wheel "double-ender" gunboat , USS Cimarron, commanded by Cmdr. Andrew J. Drake, captures the blockade-runner, Evening Star, off Wassaw Sound, Ga.
1944 USS Block Island (CVE 21) is torpedoed and is sunk by German submarine U 549. During this attack, USS Barr (DE 576) is also damaged. Block Island is the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II. U-549 is later sunk that night by USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE-686) and USS Ahrens (DE 575).
1945 USS Sterlet (SS 392) sinks Japanese army cargo ships Kuretake Maru and Tenyro Maru despite the close proximity of the escort Coast Defense Ship No. 65.
1952 During the Korean War, USS Ozbourn (DD 846), USS Radford (DDE 446), and USS Heron (AMS 18), are engaged by enemy shore batteries and machine guns for two days off Wonson, Korea. Enemy batteries are silenced by counter-battery fire.
2004 USS Pinckney (DDG 91) is commissioned at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, Calif. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is named for Cook 1st Class William Pinckney, who received the Navy Cross for rescuing a fellow USS Enterprise (CV 6) crew member during the Battle of Santa Cruz Oct. 26, 1942.
Today in History May 29
1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth.
1721 South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England.
1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848 Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.
1849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1862 Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi.
1911 The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.
1913 The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater.
1916 U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.
1922 Ecuador becomes independent.
1922 The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.
1942 The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.
1951 C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single-engine plane.
1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1974 President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 29 May 1967… The Memorial Day thoughts of LBJ, 1963 as VP through 1967 as a tired President…
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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From Decoration Day to Midway
by W. Thomas Smith Jr.
This Week in American Military History:
May 30, 1868: "Decoration Day" – the predecessor to Memorial Day – is first observed by order of U.S. Army Gen. John A. Logan, who had decreed on May5: "The 30th day of May 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit." Maj. Gen. (future U.S. pres.) James A. Garfield presides over ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery (the former estate of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee), and approximately 5,000 participants decorate the graves of both Union and Confederate dead — about 20,000 of them — buried on the grounds.
June 1, 1864: The bloody battle of Cold Harbor opens in earnest between Union Army forces under the command of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Gen. Robert E. Lee. Grant will launch a series of futile attacks over the next three days. Lee will defend and hold. Union losses will be staggering: 13,000 to the Confederacy's 2,500. In his memoirs, Grant will express regret for having attacked at Cold Harbor.
June 3, 1942: The great Naval battle of Midway opens between U.S. Naval and air forces under the command of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Japanese forces under Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, who had hoped to lure the U.S. Pacific Fleet into a great air-sea battle and destroy it. Considered a turning point in the Pacific theater of operations, the Japanese fleet is intercepted near Midway atoll, engaged, and will be decisively defeated by Nimitz. The Americans will lose one carrier, USS Yorktown (the third of five U.S. Navy warships named in commemoration of the famous Battle of Yorktown), but four Japanese carriers will be sent to the bottom. According to the U.S. Naval Historical Center: [Midway] represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive."
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Subject: Memorial Day - Shadow
Folks,
Every year I make a habit of posting something I wrote for my Marine Corps Bubba's years ago around Memorial Day. And I'm doing it again today as we start the Memorial Day Weekend. I always try not get to lugubrious on subjects like this… easy to get into a funk if I dwell on it too long… but I also believe that those gone in the line of service should never be forgotten. It also points out that not all heroes die in combat… the sheer nature of our chosen profession, was in and of itself... dangerous. We never made a big deal out of it, but in the back of our minds we knew it was there. We also knew we were afforded the best training and aircraft we could produce at the time. Still, accidents happened… as many as not... due to human mistake(s).
Never the less, we should never forget that those who perished in peace times while doing service to their nation, are no less honorable than those who perished in combat. The commitment was the same and sadly the results were the same as well. Many like John, had survived two combat tours in Vietnam, only to be done in by a bad airplane. My heart will never let me forget those who paid the ultimate price that I served with; in war and peace.
I will also admit that at times it is extremely hard to hide my rage at how this country has changed in our lifetime. We seemed to have lost our moral compass; we have politicians and charlatans dictating programs that we all know are wrong and evil in intent. They (politicians) are always the ones who get us involved in wars… and are the same people who abandon those with honorable intent by never letting us win wars. In the end, they not only abandon those we promise to save… they then abandon our own, in one way or another. In the meantime they get wealthy through corruption and malfeasance… and are immune to prosecution through political influence. I hope there's a special place in hell for all of them.
Finally, once again… keep in mind the meaning of the day… to those who served this nation in war and peace. Honor their sacrifices, love and cherish their memories.
All the Best, Shadow
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Thanks to YP"_
My Memorial Day entry is an email from someone I greatly admire, RADM Tom Brown, who has sadly Flown West. It features parts of one of my HOOK stories from way back. It is entirely true, and I have not forgotten.
YP
Begin forwarded message:
From: Thomas F Brown III
Subject: Memorial Day - And we did not forget them!
Date: May 29, 2011 at 2:30:58 PM MDT
Tailhookers,
Here's a Memorial Day Remembrance, written by Jack "Puresome" Woodul some years ago, that is close to my heart:
"To the Brethren:
"In small moments, the War always came back to him.
He never remembered his minor triumphs, but Frabb-ups were always
sneaking up out of his subconscious, tapping him on the shoulder, saying
'Remember me?' The Ghosts of his flying career also occasionally
emerged from their smoking holes in the ground and their fireballs in
the sky to visit, though over the years, they had largely merged with
the spirits that haunted the skies over Schweinfurt, stilled the air
over Gettysburg, and sounded distant trumpets over the lonely white
markers on the hills above the Little Big Horn....."
---"The Shrill of the Bagpipe, the Roll of the Drum"
"Puresome did all the usual stuff......turned in his DD-175 to the Ops
guys. Then, as he was leaving for the transient line, Puresome noticed
the plaques. The sun was streaming through the windows and dust motes
were dancing in the light. On the wall were posted the names of all the
guys from Lemoore who had been bagged in the war. There were lots of
names.
Time stopped in Puresome's universe as he read the names--some he knew,
most he didn't. Puresome felt them, what they had done, and what he had
not. He felt the honor in them and the sadness of a ratsass cause. "you
don't forget us, you don't forget us, " the wall whispered, "we gave and
we're gone and nobody gives a shit, so don't forget us. Puresome
started as two loudly talking sailors came around the corner. He walked
on out of operations towards his plane.
On the flight home, and on other flights, and through the years,
Puresome could hear the ghosts, and the bright fire in him burned, and
he did not forget them."
God bless.
Puresome"
With best wishes, Tom
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Thanks to Barrett
Ref. Bruce Carr:
I knew him when I was secretary of the aces assn. Continued telling his adventure stealing the FW 190 even after we knew it wasn't true. (Sidebar: he arrived in the UK with 314 hrs total time v. 160.) It was just after VE Day and he convinced a Brit unit to let him fly the FW but he had main mount collapse when landing at his own base. Some of us checked: there was no MIA report on him and no missing aircraft report.
Bruce's version of the story has been reprinted and copied online many many times.
Last I spoke with him, he was flying a civilian Mustang without hindrance of a valid airman's certificate. He confided that he worried about telling Barbara of his $12,000 fuel bill.
Died 1998.
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Thanks to Brett
From STRATFOR
KEY DEVELOPMENTS WE'RE TRACKING
EU to discuss sanctions on Russia. The leaders of the 26 EU member states will hold a summit on May 30-31 where the war in Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia will be at the center of the agenda. If the leaders convince Hungary to lift its veto, the bloc could announce a ban on Russian oil imports after weeks of internal negotiations. Even if Hungary continues to veto the oil ban, the European Union could still move forward with other parts of the sixth package of sanctions, such as banning additional Russian banks from accessing the SWIFT international payments system and adding more individuals to the list of sanctions.
Colombia's historic presidential election begins. The first round of Colombia's presidential elections will be held on May 29. The three leading candidates include leftist Gustavo Petro, conservative Federico Gutierrez and populist Rodolfo Hernandez. The landmark election is the first in recent decades in which the country's traditional center-right coalition does not have a major contender, signifying Colombians' growing desire for political change. The top two candidates will advance to a June 19 runoff election in the likely case that no single candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round. Colombia's next president will face numerous challenges upon taking office, including widespread calls for systemic change, a stalled peace deal with guerilla groups, complex tax reforms and the global energy transition.
Shanghai inches toward ending its lockdown. Authorities in Shanghai are pushing for June 1 as a soft target for ending the Chinese city's ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, which has been in place since March 28. In recent weeks, authorities have begun gradually lifting public transport suspensions and easing movement restrictions on residential complexes. Many residents, however, have complained the implementation of greater freedom of movement in Shanghai remains slow-going and uneven, with the city's main streets still largely empty. The production, labor market and supply chain disruptions caused by the lockdown are also expected to last through at least the end of June, even if the new June 1 target date sees a greater relaxation of restrictions across Shanghai in the coming days.
U.S. to supply Ukraine with rocket systems. The United States is planning to send advanced, long-range rocket systems — specifically the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) — to Ukraine as part of a new large package of U.S. military assistance to the war-torn country. Reports indicate Washington will authorize the new deliveries as soon as next week, though it will probably take several weeks for the shipments to actually reach Ukrainian forces on the frontlines. Ukraine's ability to conduct effective counterattacks over the summer against increasingly dug-in Russian forces will likely hinge on its ability to secure a sufficient supply of such advanced weapon systems. U.S. efforts to send Kyiv those systems, however, risk being seen by Russia as undercutting its strategic battlefield advantage and, in turn, necessitating an escalation of the war.
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This Day in U S Military History…….May 29
1780 – At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained. The Battle of Waxhaws (also known as the Waxhaws or Waxhaw Massacre, and Buford's Massacre) took place during the American Revolutionary War near Lancaster, South Carolina, between a Continental Army force led by Abraham Buford and a mainly Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton. Buford refused an initial demand to surrender, but when his men were attacked by Tarleton's cavalry, many of them threw down their arms to surrender. Accounts differ on significant details. Buford apparently then attempted to surrender, but his surrender was either rejected or not received (Tarleton possibly having been incapacitated at that time). Tarleton's men continued killing the Continental soldiers, including men who were not resisting. Little quarter was given to the Patriots. Of the 400 or so Continentals, 113 were killed with sabres, 150 so badly injured they could not be moved, and only 53 prisoners taken by the British and Loyalists. "Tarleton's quarter" thereafter became a common expression for refusing to take prisoners, and in some subsequent battles in the Carolinas few of the defeated were taken alive by either side. The battle was used in an extensive propaganda campaign by the Continental Army to bolster recruitment and resentment against the British. Other accounts of the battle describe Tarleton as having no part in ordering the massacre, and having ordered thorough medical treatment of American prisoners and wounded.
1903 – Bob Hope (d.2003), US comedian, was born as Leslie Townes in Kent, England.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured by Vought, in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (1942–53). The Corsair was designed as a carrier-based aircraft. However its difficult carrier landing performance rendered the Corsair unsuitable for Navy use until the carrier landing issues were overcome when used by the British Fleet Air Arm. The Corsair thus came to and retained prominence in its area of greatest deployment: land based use by the U.S. Marines. The role of the dominant U.S. carrier based fighter in the second part of the war was thus filled by the Grumman F6F Hellcat, powered by the same Double Wasp engine first flown on the Corsair's first prototype in 1940. The Corsair served to a lesser degree in the U.S. Navy. As well as the U.S. and British use the Corsair was also used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the French Navy Aéronavale and other, smaller, air forces until the 1960s. Some Japanese pilots regarded it as the most formidable American fighter of World War II, and the U.S. Navy counted an 11:1 kill ratio with the F4U Corsair. After the carrier landing issues had been tackled it quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of World War II. The Corsair served almost exclusively as a fighter-bomber throughout the Korean War and during the French colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
1943 – Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on the cover of "The Saturday Evening Post." Rockwell's model was Mary Keefe (19) of Arlington, Vermont. In 2002 the painting sold at auction for $4,959,500.
1943 – Churchill, Marshall and Eisenhower met in the Confederacy of Algiers.
1943 – Meat and cheese began to be rationed in US.
1943 – On Attu the Japanese mount a final attack on American forces established in Chicagof.
1944 – On Biak Island, as well as Arare on the mainland, the American beachheads are heavily attacked by Japanese forces. The Japanese garrison on Biak makes use of tanks to force the US 162nd Regiment back towards its landing zone.
1944 – The American escort carrier Block Island and a destroyer are sunk by U-549 before it is itself sunk.
1944 – About 400 American bombers attack German synthetic fuel works and oil refineries at Polits and other locations. The damage caused sets back aircraft fuel production.
1944 – At Anzio, the British and American troops of the US 6th Corps take Campoleone and Carroceto. The Canadian 1st Corps begins to advance up Route 6 from Caprano toward Frosinone.
1945 – American B-29 Superfortress bombers drop incendiaries on Yokohama, burning 85 percent of the port area
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
BOYNE, THOMAS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Mimbres Mountains, N. Mex., 29 May 1879; at Cuchillo Negro River near Ojo Caliente, N. Mex., 27 September 1879. Entered service at:——. Birth: Prince Georges County, Md. Date of issue: 6 January 1882. Citation: Bravery in action.
NOLAN, JOSEPH A.
Rank and organization: Artificer, Company B, 45th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Labo, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 29 May 1900. Entered service at: South Bend, Ind. Birth: Elkhart, Ind. Date of issue: 14 March 1902. Citation: Voluntarily left shelter and at great personal risk passed the enemy's lines and brought relief to besieged comrades.
KING, JOHN
Rank and organization: Watertender, U.S. Navy. Born: 7 February 1865, Ireland. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 72, 6 December 1901. Second award. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Vicksburg, for heroism in the line of his profession at the time of the accident to the boilers, 29 May 1901.
*GALT, WILLIAM WYLIE
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division. Place and date: At Villa Crocetta, Italy, 29 May 1944. Entered service at: Stanford, Mont. Birth: Geyser, Mont. G.O. No.: 1, 1 February 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. Capt. Galt, Battalion S3, at a particularly critical period following 2 unsuccessful attacks by his battalion, of his own volition went forward and ascertained just how critical the situation was. He volunteered, at the risk of his life, personally to lead the battalion against the objective. When the lone remaining tank destroyer refused to go forward, Capt. Galt jumped on the tank destroyer and ordered it to precede the attack. As the tank destroyer moved forward, followed by a company of riflemen, Capt. Galt manned the .30-caliber machinegun in the turret of the tank destroyer, located and directed fire on an enemy 77mm. anti-tank gun, and destroyed it. Nearing the enemy positions, Capt. Galt stood fully exposed in the turret, ceaselessly firing his machinegun and tossing hand grenades into the enemy zigzag series of trenches despite the hail of sniper and machinegun bullets ricocheting off the tank destroyer. As the tank destroyer moved, Capt. Galt so maneuvered it that 40 of the enemy were trapped in one trench. When they refused to surrender, Capt. Galt pressed the trigger of the machinegun and dispatched every one of them. A few minutes later an 88mm shell struck the tank destroyer and Capt. Galt fell mortally wounded across his machinegun. He had personally killed 40 Germans and wounded many more. Capt. Galt pitted his judgment and superb courage against overwhelming odds, exemplifying the highest measure of devotion to his country and the finest traditions of the U.S. Army.
*MORELAND, WHITT L.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Kwagch'i-Dong, Korea, 29 May 1951. Entered service at: Austin, Tex. Born: 7 March 1930, Waco, Tex. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an intelligence scout attached to Company C, in action against enemy aggressor forces. Voluntarily accompanying a rifle platoon in a daring assault against a strongly defended enemy hill position, Pfc. Moreland delivered accurate rifle fire on the hostile emplacement and thereby aided materially in seizing the objective. After the position had been secured, he unhesitatingly led a party forward to neutralize an enemy bunker which he had observed some 400 meters beyond, and moving boldly through a fire-swept area, Almost reached the hostile emplacement when the enemy launched a volley of hand grenades on his group. Quick to act despite the personal danger involved, he kicked several of the grenades off the ridge line where they exploded harmlessly and, while attempting to kick away another, slipped and fell near the deadly missile. Aware that the sputtering grenade would explode before he could regain his feet and dispose of it, he shouted a warning to his comrades, covered the missile with his body and absorbed the full blast of the explosion, but in saving his companions from possible injury or death, was mortally wounded. His heroic initiative and valiant spirit of self-sacrifice in the face of certain death reflect the highest credit upon Pfc. Moreland and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for May 29, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
29 May
1910: Glenn H. Curtiss flew a record 142.5 miles from Albany to New York in 2 hours 50 minutes to win his third Scientific American Trophy. This flight gave him permanent possession of the trophy as well as the $10,000 prize from New York World. 1934: COLLIER TROPHY. The Hamilton Standard Propeller Company, with credit to Frank W. Caldwell, received the 1933 trophy for developing a controllable pitch propeller. (24)
1940: The Vought F4U Corsair first flew.
1951: Flying a converted P-51, Charles F. Blair, Jr., traveled 3,300 miles across the North Pole from Bardufoss, Norway, to Fairbanks in 10 hours 29 minutes. Thus, he became the first man to make the trip alone and in a single-engine plane. (9) (24)
1953: SAC received its first KC–97G Stratofreighter, a flying boom-type tanker that could dispense 8,513 gallons of aviation gasoline. Unlike previous models, the KC-97G could haul cargo without reconfiguration or carry 96 troops or heavy equipment without modification. (18)
1966: The ARRS observed its 20th anniversary. In this period, the ARRS rescued more than 12,000 people throughout the world. (16)
1997: A B-2 from the 509 BW at Whiteman AFB dropped a GAM-113 bomb over the China Lake Range near Edwards AFB. This drop marked the first time the 4,700-pound conventional penetrating weapon was paired with the B-2. (AFNEWS, 19 Jun 97)
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