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Quote of the Day. "Most everybody recalls that the atomic bomb was made by the Manhattan Project. They're the people that made the atomic bomb. We had nothing to do with the making -- we were merely the delivery boys, so to speak." Dutch Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, speaking in Columbus, GA. (McClatchy News)

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