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RT by @mikenov: At the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Lee Davis found a prisoner so thin that he could not lift his head. The man blinked, barely alive. Davis knelt down, broke off a piece of his chocolate ration, and gently stuffed it into his mouth. The man burst into tears, unable to chew, but holding the chocolate as if it were gold. “He hadn’t spoken in weeks,” another soldier said, “but he whispered ‘thank you,’ in English.” Private Davis remained by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him “the man who brought flavor back to the world.” It’s always good to be good.

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