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“We’re probably one of the military’s secret weapons.”

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“We’re probably one of the military’s secret weapons.”

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“When I heard the lyrics I just imagined in my head...Grandpa and I."

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“When I heard the lyrics I just imagined in my head...Grandpa and I."

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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”

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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”

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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”

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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”

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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”

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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”

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"That kindness in such young people changed me forever."

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"That kindness in such young people changed me forever."

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"I had this wild thing in my mind that everything that happened on September 11th was my fault."

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"I had this wild thing in my mind that everything that happened on September 11th was my fault."

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"He had eyes the color of a swimming pool. They were the lightest blue, and they sparkled."

"He had eyes the color of a swimming pool. They were the lightest blue, and they sparkled."

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"It was like Picasso, a great artist doing his work. When he was in that car, he was doing his work."

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"It was like Picasso, a great artist doing his work. When he was in that car, he was doing his work."

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"I didn't know that there were other blind people except me and my brothers."

"I didn't know that there were other blind people except me and my brothers."