Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this war is not only a soldier's war but a people's war, we must have strict organization of all resources of the nation. And just as the commander of a military force is the only master who may dispose of the services and of the lives of his men, so the leaders of your country...
...every walk of life there will be empty places everywhere there will be need of trained and developed men to fill those empty places, immediately and effectively. Every one of you, in the special line in which you are working, has a grave responsibility: you are like the soldier in the trenches who holds himself ready to take the place of the comrade who falls. On the day when, in a liberated world, intellectual, industrial, commercial activity begins again, no place should remain empty. On that day you, who are young, must be ready. And what your country will...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...
Colonel Applin is a soldier of many years' experience, having entered the British North Borneo Service as a cadet in 1889. He was in the Syed and Mat Salleh Rebellion, and was later a captain of the Sixth Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, in the South African...
...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL