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#1 On September 3, 1939, Neville Chamberlain delivered a radio speech that announced Britain was at war with Germany. The children of London and the rest of Britain's cities were lined up on the platforms of railway stations and boarding trains for the countryside, where they would live with strangers.
#2 On the evening of September 3, the train carrying Adolf Hitler's...
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#1 We were triple volunteers: we had volunteered and graduated from the Army's parachute jump school in Georgia, made it through the Qualification Course at the Special Forces Training Group in North Carolina, and after attending the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in-country training program, we had volunteered to serve in MACV-SOG's Command and Control.
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#1 When the COVID-19 crisis forced his company to shut down, Curtis Christopherson, the founder and CEO of Innovative Fitness, had to pivot and go remote. His company was already working with a software provider to develop a proprietary system for appointment scheduling and billing. They asked a wild question: can you add video calling to the platform. Their provider...
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#1 You may feel despair about the human condition. It seems impossible to solve the deeply embedded problems of crime, poverty, drug abuse, prejudice, and violence. But you can't figure out what to do about it.
#2 You arrive at work and are immediately called into a meeting. Another customer survey has come up with the same old message: They want better service...
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#1 I was sworn in as a marine in January 1942. The captain who swore me in reduced the ceremony to a jumble. We all held up our hands, and when he lowered his, we guessed we were marines. The gunnery sergeant who became my shepherd made sure I understood what was expected of me.
#2 The boy next to me, a handsome blond from south Jersey, turned out to have a fine high...
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#1 I had been commissioned as Sub-Lieutenant in 1926, and in 1939 I was enjoying foreign service leave after returning from a two-year commission in command of the destroyer Defender on the China Station. I had spent the past thirteen years of service divided between destroyers and the Fleet Air Arm, two branches of the Navy that were ideally suited to give me the training...
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