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Okay, hopping into the discussion section.

So there's only one obvious topic that you and I should discuss in the free preview section.

That's almost certainly the D-Day anniversary of this week.

So you've got some really good tweets coming out.

Folks have been writing and asking for book recommendations, all those great things.

I'll be you just tee things off and kick things off there.

Yeah, I went on, I honestly don't remember how I got to this, but I went on a real eyes.

Oh, no, no, I do remember. Masters of the Air came out so then I read

Masters of the Air. After I read Masters of the Air I read a biography of

Curtis LeMay. Then after I read a biography of Curtis LeMay, I had to read,

I was like, because a huge part of the LeMay biography

is actually the Japan campaign.

So then I read Eagle Rise, it's an Eagle against the Sun, which is about the US campaign in the Pacific and there are a lot of throwaway

MacArthur references and shade to Eisenhower and that is how I came to Eisenhower so anyway this was a soccer fun history

point and this is why you're currently getting into that not even the niche but like the sort of there's the main obvious

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