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When Roosevelt lied about the German attack on the destroyer Greer in 1941, he set a low bar for Johnson’s highly embellished description of a North Vietnamese attack on US naval vessels, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964.

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Attilla the Hun, destroyer of civilizations, who named himself the Scourge of God, took one look at them and turned around.

But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank.

Two of them are Vishnu, the preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer.

I earned my reputation as destroyer of family vacations for always insisting on being dropped off at the fanciest megachurch in town.

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