Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...influence of any great upheaval of the normal round of life is inspiring or depressing according to the age of men. The more stable has a man's mode of living become, the more he fears to see that mode thrown out of use, usurped by newer events. So at the outbreak of war on old men falls the horror of war, on young men the need of war, and on younger men the excitement...
Those who are not yet of age to be eligible for commissions or for the draft feel nevertheless that they must find some service which will be worthy of their desire to serve. That impulse, to be frank, affects boys from the age of fourteen on. The old order has changed, and they seek the adventure of life in the new. As result there are many boys of seventeen who are attempting to enter the Navy, and others who are seeking in what way they may help their country, provided it be a way of excitement and romance...
...spurs of knighthood. It is a hard and rather dirty business which must be carried out in the wisest way, with due attention to its quickest and complete accomplishment. It must be carried out by those who are most able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older and the younger generation. As not one of those who are of military age may shun the duty which falls on them be cause of their citizenship and their strength, so those who are not yet of military age should...
Until that need shall arise, it rests on those who lack two, or three or five years of the age for duty to continue to fit themselves for life that they may fill the place of those men who are taken by war, or to be ready in a more complete way to defend their country should she in a few years call again...
...training received on this cruise will fit men for commissions in the Navy or in the merchant marine when they become of age...