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Arthur C. Clarke scores best.
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Re the proposed 1945 US land invasion of Japan: "The Military was so certain things were about to go very badly for U.S. soldiers that 500,000 Purple Hearts were made in preparation, a number so large that the medals have been used to supply every single war since, including Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I and Iraq II, with about 100,000 still left ov…