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SILENCE OF SOLDIERS Taciturnity appears to be an attribute of great soldiers The brief but comprehensive messages from General Grant at the front during the Civil War were classics classicsThe The liigli commanders today are silent men menToday Today when everyone is bestowing praisa on the master strategist Focii the new field marshal passes the credit to his soldiers and says simply We liiivu begun our action and shall continue continuePctain Pctain Nivelle Hate Byng fight they do not talk Through good or ill report they speak no word wordGemnil Gemnil Perching has this trait of the soldier He is laconic to a degree Soon after he led his first troops to France he visited the tomb of La fayctts He stood in silent contemplation for a while but that his mind was not idle was evidenred by the remark so quiet as to be almost under his breath breathWell Well Lafayette we are here hereThe The British soldier has it too Sinking to the firth wounded he simnly bids his comrades Carry on and Hi American in the field follows suit witli H heroic Im sorry but I did the best I could Tell the bunch to finish the job jobOf Of a truth the shallows murmur wliila the deeps are dumb New York Telegram
