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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death -- the seas bear only commerce -- men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

 - Douglas MacArthur