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    "The French soldiers are grand. They are grand. There is no other word to express it."
    - Arthur Conan Doyle, A visit to three fronts (1916)

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    They signed up for the duration plus six months. Fought across Europe and the Pacific then came home and built one of the strongest countries in the world. We walk in the foot steps of giants.
    Mick-Boy

    "Men who carry rifles for a living do not seek reward outside the guild. The most cherished gift...is a nod from his peers."


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    "The French soldiers are grand. They are grand. There is no other word to express it."
    - Arthur Conan Doyle, A visit to three fronts (1916)

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    We must always remember these men and women. Every night in my prayers, past present and future.
    "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
    George S. Patton

    "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
    John F. Kennedy

    ?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
    George Fitch. c 1916.

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    The next time im back home im going to try to transcribe my grandfathers letters home.

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    May their deeds never fall from memory.
    Their sacrifices never forgotten.

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