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  • It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.

    Journal entry on July 21, 1944. "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1970.