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"...Your life and your death are nothing to these fields... nothing, not more than it is to the man planning the next attack. Your death will not make the world safe for your children. Your death means no more than if you had died in your bed, full of years and respectability, having begotten a tribe of young. Yet by your courage in tribulation, by your cheerfulness before the dirty devices of this world, you have won the love of those who have watched you. All we remember is your living face, and that we loved you for being of our clay and spirit."

-- Guy Chapman
Magnicourt-sur-Canche, France 1916
I Protest! by David Douglas Duncan,
Khe Sanh, Vietnam 1968