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He blamed the NCOs, who blamed the officers; they swore at the staff officers who blamed the Generals.

— Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993)

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He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.

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Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.

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If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

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Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.

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There would be some decorum in their dying beneath the country they had fought so long to protect.

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