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Last words that seek to make perpetrator into victim
Newspaper article from: The Herald ...that Timothy McVeigh should have...well-known words of the poem by William...Henley was a Victorian poet who...composing jingoist poems about the...these other poems in that it...unconquerable. The poem ...
The message of mass murder: Man can defy God for ever
Magazine article from: The Spectator ...Sometimes a word, a slight...is that that poem quoted by Timothy...is by a minor Victorian poet, William...point is that McVeigh wrote the scroll...11 June 2001 McVeigh's executioners...did that too. McVeigh, not God...will ...

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