Can a general fight on the strength of the soldiers who, he knows, have no faith in him?
Soldiers Quotes
“Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Did aught take ‘arm to my true love?” – “I couldn’t see the fight, for the smoke it lay so white – An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, I’ll up an’ tend to my true love!” – “‘E’s lying on […]
That can’t be no combat soldier; he’s lookin’ for a fight! (WWII cartoon)
Soldiers are not the enemies of the Movement. They’re potential allies. They’re more than that. Soldiers are the only people in America who are paying a stiff price for this war. Everybody else profits. Soldiers are the ones losing their lives, losing friends, having their lives disrupted. The real victims of American imperialism are its […]
We ain’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The Larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Scarce days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow Loved, and were loved,and now we lie, In Flanders […]
When in the newspapers it merely says “The casualties in our infantry regiments are high,” to us it means our buddies killed, wounded and captured. I’ve had close friends in all these categories and it really hits hard. I’d better not hear anyone expound on the “glories of war” or I won’t be held responsible […]
Children play at being soldiers. That is sensible. But why should soldiers play at being children?
Religious families have sons as well as daughters. If army life is degrading why are they not concerned for the morals of their sons?
Dragoon, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.
