Word: never
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Other flags, sheltering and honoring other men, will follow that first flag, and Germany will see the Stars and Stripes flying at the forefront of armies. Yet some measure of sanctity must be accorded that pioneer banner, adventuring out on unknown fields against a people which we have never before held...
...need in deadly earnestness food for our armies and the armies of our allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work, middling fair constituents of the rank and file...
There is no profit to a single man in waiting for some hoped-for opportunity which may never arise. If he waits, he had as well wait to the end of the war, when his nation will have attained victory or gone down to perdition without him. No man wants to be a procrastinator...
...says, in an article in the Yale News, "there will be plenty of time for the under-age men to become old enough to obtain commissions; and if it is a short one, it would be a foolish waste for them to leave college now and then never see service even in the ranks. You must consider how infinitely more important officers are than privates. Napoleon fell largely because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead the troops. It is estimated that 60 per cent. of the French soldiers...
...problem, however, which we must consider seriously is the food problem. It is said authoritatively that in New England the food supply at one time is never more than enough for two weeks. What would happen, then, if the Hoosac Tunnel and other means of transportation were destroyed...