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...June, 1945, after most of his army had faded away, the hunted General proclaimed to his remaining troops: "Do not despair. . . . There is bound to be a war between the western democracies and Russia." He said that "Serbians would rather perish than submit to Tito's command or to Communism." Last week he unwillingly submitted, would surely perish...
...single one of the combatants who is spared the shameful experience of fear. The heroes quake like everybody else. . . . By its very blindness, destiny establishes a kind of justice. Blind also is she who decrees to warriors punishment in kind. He that takes the sword, will perish by the sword. The Iliad formulated the principle long before the Gospels did, and in almost the same terms...
...explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty to his fellowman...
...Simoom, the hot, dry Poison Wind of Arabia, whole parties of men sometimes perish together. Nature thinks that perhaps they lose so much water by sweating (up to two quarts an hour) in the dry air that they lose the ability to sweat and their bodies become defenseless against the heat...
...have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with a restraint and poise to which I say history will find few parallels, His Majesty's Government never laid a violent hand upon them, although at times it would have been quite easy and quite natural, and we left the De Valera Government...