Then was een with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. Each with his feuds, his jealousies, his sorrows.
Soldiers are dreamers, when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
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