Word: stay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such 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...
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...
Twelve men have been selected to take the special training in grenades and bayonet work which will begin Monday at Camp Devens. They will stay at the cantonment until the end of May. One half of this quota will specialize in the grenade instruction, which is to be given by Lieutenant Mallet of the French Military Mission, and the other men will concentrate upon bayonet exercises under Captain Goodday, of the British Mission. All of the men will receive training in the Hebert system of physical training. The corps will pay for their subsistence, since they are in reality members...
...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
Every dollar that goes into the Third Liberty Loan should be subscribed with the firm resolve that it is there to stay as long as the country needs...