“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.”
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
