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April 5, 2007

David: Declassified In 2034

“I’m afraid I can’t talk about that. National security.”

“Are you kidding me?” the reporter huffed.

“Suffice it to say this nation—heck, the world—owes that man a debt we can never repay.”

“Then why have I never heard of him?”

He looked indulgently at the reporter. “Exactly.”

The reporter turned off her recorder. “Okay, you win. Now, off the record: what’s the deal here? According to my research, he was nothing more than a shopkeeper from Indiana.”

The general checked for eavesdroppers, then leaned in. She sidled up next to him, the better to hear him.

“National security.”

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