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To the editor:
My salute to a Green Beret: Fletcher Eastham.
I congratulate you on your letter, “We owe no apologies.” You call a spade a spade and you stand up for your country. It is all right to have dreams and illusions as long as you don’t think they are realities.
Communism might be a wonderful idea, but it has not functioned for the last 80 years for the benefit of the people, and as long as there are “human beings” it will never function. The Russians you saw were here only because they must be
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