At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.Philip Gibbs
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
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This war will be the last war. It is a war of justice against injustice. When they have finished this time the people will have no more of it.
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
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