Word: calls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Second Battalion leaves today to assume the First's cots, tents and rifle ranges. It is to be presumed that it will shoot with equal accuracy, consume its allotted rations with equal relish, and call out the corporal of the guard when on sentry duty with equal zeal...
...need to call upon our boys nor our old men to defend the nation or to gain victory. The knowledge rests with us that should such bitter need arise, as we may trust it never will, they will come, not in the tumultuous desire for excitement, but in the strong desire for service, equally brave...
...Wakefield day starts with first call at 5 o'clock, followed in 15 minutes by reveille and 15 minutes later by breakfast. After breakfast sick call is sounded, but to date few men have reported at this formation. Work on the range starts immediately, continuing with an hour out for lunch until 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon...
...above appointments will be published to the company at the first roll call following the receipt of this memorandum. C. CORDIER. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant. June...
This is only the number of those who were ready to go without question and at once, according to the records. As the percentage of those who would go to war at the first call from a spirit of adventure is only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of those who will willingly go when called upon (as the experience of England has shown) then we may count on four or six million men whose love of country, unlike their love of adventure, is superior to selfish motives of physical immunity...