"Going to the front: recollections of a private — I." Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Jun 2018 12:06 p.m. PST |
"Before I reached the point of enlisting, I had read and been "enthused" by General Dix's famous "shoot him on the spot" dispatch; I had attended flag-raisings, and had heard orators declaim of "undying devotion to the Union." One speaker to whom I listened declared that "human life must be cheapened" ; but I never learned that he helped on the work experimentally. When men by the hundred walked soberly to the front and signed the enlistment papers, he was not one of them. As I came out of the hall, with conflicting emotions, feeling as though I should have to go finally or forfeit my birthright as an American citizen, one of the orators who stood at the door, glowing with enthusiasm and patriotism, and shaking hands effusively with those who enlisted, said to me: "Did you enlist?" "No," I said. "Did you?" "No; they won't take me. I have got a game leg and a widowed mother to take care of." I remember another enthusiast who was eager to enlist others. He declared that the family of no man who went to the front should suffer. After…." Free to read link Amicalement Armand
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