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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle"s van, The fittest
place where man can die Is where he dies for man!" | |
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Michael J. Barry
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| "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks
and Romans, and must be that of every free state." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I gave my life for freedom - This I know; For those who bade me
fight had told me so." | |
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William Norman Ewer
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| "I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a
wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his
dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one"s
action." | |
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Kevin Costner
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| "I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My
country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan"s poor." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed, And maids are
May when they are maids, But the sky changes when they are wives." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or
river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer!
dying, dying, dying." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "One of man"s finest qualities is described by the simple word " guts
"?the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when
your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful
in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have " guts " in the
soldiering sense. This ability to take it must be trained?the training is
hard, mental as well as physical. But once ingrained, you can face and
flail the enemy as a soldier, and enjoy the challenges of life as a
civilian." | |
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Col. John S. Roosma
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| "RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform
and from a soldier by his gait." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win Some flaming, fatal
climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They
think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives." | |
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Siegfried Sassoon
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| "The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes." | |
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Proverb
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| "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but
boys, it is all hell." | |
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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| "These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth"s
foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages
and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons,
beginning August 24, 1914." | |
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Alfred Edward Housman
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| "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." | |
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Admiral Chester William Nimitz
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| "Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and
ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from
his own nature." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and
ability to rule ? these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from
his own nature." | |
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Bhagavad Gita
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| "What passing-bells, for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous
anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle Can patter out
their hasty orisons." | |
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Wilfred Owen
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| "When you go home, Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We
gave our today." | |
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Unknown
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| "You know ? we"ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined
that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten
that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved
faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God ?" I said to myself, "it"s the
Children"s Crusade."" | |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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