Rear Admiral Walter

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    It is not easy to free
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    or rear this fellow up
    to lutch, lurch with them
    in the tranced dancing of men.
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    Right now he’s suffering the cruelest tortures the Germans can devise. But he won’t talk—not as long as he can stand that punishment. And no human body can stand it too long—not even this wonderful, tough guy from Minnesota.
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