April 2012
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Did you know,
loveofatravelingsoldier:
Military members who get deployed can often be seen wearing a backwards flag on their uniform.
Why?
Because soldiers used to march into battle following a flag. Someone would march ahead of them waving the flag of our country, and to the soldiers marching forward, the flag was backwards.
Today, the backwards flag on a soldier’s uniform symbolizes bravery. It’s a...
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Love is like this at the bone, we hope, love
is like this, Sweetheart, all sore...
– Thomas Lux, from “I Love You Sweatheart” (via the-final-sentence)
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To become an executioner, somebody cold and analytical, to be trained to kill,...
– Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier from WWII (via greatestgeneration)
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31 percent of the men who graduated Oxford in 1913 were killed.
– On today’s Fresh Air, historian Adam Hochschild explains why WWI was different than other major conflicts: “It was different because it was the tradition in most of the major countries for upper-class young men to have military careers, and then it became those young captains and lieutenants.” (via...
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