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~ By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. ~ ~ I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. ~ ~ The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. ~ ~ No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ~ ~ There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ~ ~ Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ~ ~ Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. ~ ~ The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, itís always some other department who is to blame and never the people who have authority, itís always some nameless foot-soldiers, a ìfew bad apples,î when we all know that such excuses donít hold water, we know who gave the order for soldiers to engage in the abhorrent techniques of torture, we know who told subordinates in the corporation(s) to ìfudge the numbersî and ìbe creative,î we know full well who makes these decisions. President Truman said, ìThe buck stops here,î now the buck effectively floats over many people never stopping anywhere, so thereís no one to blame ~ ~ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ~ |
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