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"Guard of Honor" is a novel by American author James Gould Cozzens, published in 1948. The novel focuses on air force officers and men. Cozzens' works often dealt with middle-class American life and professional people. "Guard of Honor" earned Cozzens the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1949. The term "guard of honor" itself refers to an honor guard.12

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