I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead; I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
In the stark
Danger of life at war, they lie so still,
All prostrate and defenceless, head by head.
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