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Freedom, family, faith: Celebrating 40 years of The Washington Times
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"The aim of The Times has been to inform American leaders on how to defend America and, as a nation blessed by God, how America can live for the sake of the world,” said Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the widow of Rev. Moon and the current leader of the Unification movement began in 1954 — a year after the war between North and South Korea was frozen by a U.S.-backed armistice. She and her husband devoted their lives to reunifying the Korean Peninsula and to promoting world peace.
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