Word: dies
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...noteworthy that those who are proclaiming against the injustice of the new taxes are willing enough that young men go forth to die for the cause of the nation. Such young men are making a sacrifice beyond which man in all his generosity...
...Though young men will die at the Marne and the Somme...
...aftermath of war is always made awful with the suffering of those whom war has passed over but has not spared. It is not the men who die in battle, glorious and brave in their oblivion of the selfish animal instincts for self-preservation at any cost, who are pitiful. It is rather those who are left. Of such are the children of French soldiers who have fallen in battle...
...France agonizing for her very life, shuddered, remarked "War is an awful thing," and turned to the financial page, content with our three full meals a day, and our security form lawless nations. We have been told that great wealth is consumed in war, and that brave men die. Which is all very true...
...tragic that brave men die. It is tragic that men are afraid to die. All men die, but not all men are brave. We have escaped from one of the terrors of peace...