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Veterans

IrishBubbaLiberal

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11. " You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win."

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #10)

Wed Apr 30, 2025, 03:53 PM

Apr 30

“You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.”

—Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh in a warning to French colonialists in 1946.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/vietnam-war-forty-quotes

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