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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political "rights") warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.
- Herbert Read
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June 1
1879: Eugene, Prince Imperial of France, killed in the Zulu campaign
1915: Lord Kitchener made a K.G.
1917: Since beginning of the war, British have taken 76,067 prisoners on the Western front
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