Shannon Lionheart

“For every Englishman who philosophizes there are a hundred who don't. For every solider who prays, there are a thousand who don't. But there is hardly a man who will not return from war bigger than when he left home. His language may have deteriorated. His "views" on religion and morals may have remained unchanged. He may be rougher in manner. But it will not be for nothing that he has learned from hardship without making a song about it, that he has risked his life for righteousness' sake, that he has bound up his wounds of his mates, and shared with them his meager rations. We who have served in the ranks of "the first hundred thousand" will want to remember something more than the ingloriousness of war. We shall want to remember how adversity made men unselfish, and pain found them tender, and danger found them brave, and loyalty made them heroic. The fighting man is a very ordinary person; that's granted; but he has shown that the ordinary person can rise to unexpected heights of generosity and self-sacrifice.”
― Donald Hankey, A Student In Arms