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Courage Is Always an Option, but You Must Be Willing to Choose It

This is the story of how a plane, with a deceptively simple wooden design, became the paragon of the Allies’ steely determination to defeat Hitler — and what it can teach us about fighting evil today.

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Like a child’s model airplane, it was made of wood. The Germans first mocked it as a “wooden coffin,” but quickly changed to calling it “lightning terror.” Parked on the runway, it looked awkward and ungraceful, with none of the sleek beauty of the Spitfire. But it flew over 400 miles per hour and became the Gestapo’s most hated plane.

They called it the…

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