Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...century ago Germany's women melted their wedding rings for gold to defend their native land. Germany will do the like again, before she will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...
...clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which he so little regards. Other men, who prize more highly honor and liberty, may preserve their own honor and liberty, and incidentally that...
...being established through the country by locally patriotic citizens who still cherish the traditions of the Revolution, are admirable. These men remember the time, well sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens...
Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...