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“Wartime provided a crack in a wall that these men may never have hurdled otherwise,” Mr. Quattro writes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
A "large number," as one official warily puts it, have hurdled the Wall "by the most adventurous ways conceivable."
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