Word: kamerad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game for all it's worth. System? They've got everything down to a fine point; a great part of the time the Tommies don't even realize that the games they are playing are developing just the traits...
Already the war has taken on in innumerable engagements a ferocious character that no man, trusting to the humanity of this modern age, could have believed. Times uncounted it has been reported that German troops have held up their hands in surrender, pleading piteously, "Kamerad!" with that stirring appeal to brotherhood which awakens kindliness in any man. And then, when the attackers had spared them and passed, they have turned and fired uncomrade-like volleys at those who had granted, them life...