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“When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.”

People Knows Lost Boys Judging Soldier Thieves Lost Boys

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”

Should Made Boys Blood Rain Soldier Complaining Flood Mud Jolly Wretchedness

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.”

Thinking War Simple Silence Boys History Hair Mercy Soldier Desert Civil War American Civil War

Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.”

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.”

“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”

Ends Age Order Boys Cases Middle Trade Soldier Entering Middle Ages Merchants Initiation Workmen Administrators Courtiers Plies

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.”

People Book War School Remember Boys Century Fronts Quiet Western Soldier Classic Instant 20th Century Classic Book

Author:Ann Widdecombe

“It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.”

Has Beens Pleasure Boys Program Soldier Defence Sailor

Author:Bob Hope