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Imagine Yourself As A Wife, And You Have To Look At A Brain-injured Husband For The Rest Of Your Life, And He Can't Talk To You. But We're Paying For This. That's The Easy Part, Money Payment. But How Do You Pay For The Misery? So If We Can, We Should Be Able To Avoid War.

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Daniel Inouye

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Imagine Yourself As A Wife, And You Have To Look At A Brain-injured Husband For The Rest Of Your Life, And He Can't Talk To You. But We're Paying For This. That's The Easy Part, Money Payment. But How Do You Pay For The Misery? So If We Can, We Should Be Able To Avoid War.

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