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Memories of Service 5 - Ron Cross
Web (Full Length) – 2017
If you’re going to be in infantry, blood and guts is your business and you’ve got to get used to it.– Ron Cross
We trained to fight in the steaming hot jungles of Malaya in Tekapo — in snow six inches deep.– Ron Cross
What are they doing now? Well, I know what they’re not doing. They haven’t learned not to have wars. No one really wins.– Ron Cross
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