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Quote of the day

“The one thing that people are forgetting is that the real hero is the mother. She ran out in front of the guns, screaming ‘bambino, bambino, bambino!’ She faced the guns, I didn’t. I was holding them. But she was — like most mothers — they’re heroes.”

— Martin Adler, 96, a World War II veteran who was recently reuinted with three Italian children (who are now in their late 70s and early 80s), with whom he posed in a photo in 1944. (Link to the whole story is below.)