At the end of WWII, four of General James Doolittle's Tokyo raiders were released from captivity in Japan. In Carroll V. Glines book, Four Came Home, the epilogue is titled 'The Battle Shall Be Won'.
George Barr, Jacob D. DeShazer, Robert L. Hite and Chase J. Nielsen said of their captivity:
"We learned the ultimate meaning of democracy and the freedoms that a democratic government represents. In the hundreds of lonely hours we spent trying to keep our sanity by reviewing the things we had learned in school, often reluctantly, one the documents we recited to ourselves was the Declaration of Independence."
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED......
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