Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
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John Eisenhower Quote
“My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.”
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