"I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La."

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Source : "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #June Quotes

“I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.”

Source : Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.
“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
“An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.”
“The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.”
“Love is the only prayer I know.”

Source : "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
“It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
“I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.”

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