What passing bells for these that die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Soldiers Quotes
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
What makes you go abroad, fighting for strangers When you could be safe at home, free from all dangers? A recruiting sergeant came our way To an Inn nearby at the close of day He said young Johnny you’re a fine young man Would you like to march along behind a military band, With a […]
Soldier, in a curious land All across a swaying sea, Take her smile and lift her hand – Have no guilt of me. Solider, when were soldiers true? If she’s kind and sweet and gay, Use the wish I send to you – Lie not lone til day! Only, for the nights that were, Soldier, […]
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then […]
Humilities are piled on a soldier… so in order that he may, when the time comes, be not too resentful of the final humility – a meaningless and dirty death.
It has come to my attention that a very small number of soldiers are going to the hospitals on the pretext that they are nervously incapable of combat. Such men are cowards, and they bring discredit to the Army and disgrace to their comrades, whom they heartlessly leave to endure the dangers of battle, while […]
He who does garrison duty is as much soldier as he that is in the fighting line.
So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
General John A. Crane, to whose Brigade Private Bennet belongs, stated to me afterwards that the man was Absent Without Leave and that he had gone to the rear by falsely representing his condition to the Battery Surgeon. It is rather a commentary on justice when an Army commander has to soft soap a skulker […]
