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Leave No-One Dead or Alive
U.S. News and World Report, July 29, 1991, p. 5
Leave No-One Dead or Alive
U.S. News and World Report, July 29, 1991, p. 5
The soldier's first article of faith is summed up nowhere more eloquently than in an 1865 letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to U. S. Grant: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come&md;if alive." This is the unwritten, unspoken but unbreakable contract of the battlefield: You will leave no one, dead or alive, in the hands of the enemy.
