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• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course,…
• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself…
• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up…
• Every battalion has its marching songs.
• The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours…
• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep,…

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