Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles-the Profession of Arms, Military Leadership, Ethical Practices, War and Morality, Educating the Citizen-SoldierMalham M. Wakin, James Kempf |
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Page 58 - Then a soldier came into the cowshed and said there were some more bodies outside. We went out into the road. Four mules stood there, in the moonlight, in the road where the trail came down off the mountain. The soldiers who led them stood there waiting. "This one is Captain Waskow,
Page 207 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Page 242 - If a person had delivered up your body to any one whom he had met in the way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in. delivering up your own mind to be disconcerted and confounded by any one who happens to give you ill language.
Page 242 - Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses. If short, then in a short one ; if long, then in a long one. If it be his pleasure that you should...
Page 57 - After my father, he came next," a sergeant told me. "He always looked after us," a soldier said. "He'd go to bat for us every time.
Page 210 - What so truely sutes with honour and honestie, as the discovering things unknowne? erecting Townes, peopling Countries, informing the ignorant, reforming things unjust, teaching virtue; and gaine to our Native mother-countrie a kingdom to attend her; finde...
Page 57 - And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating. 48 But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.
Page 58 - I sure am sorry, sir." Then the first man squatted down, and he reached down and took the captain's hand, and he sat there for a full five minutes holding the dead hand in his own and looking intently into the dead face. And he never uttered a sound all the time he sat there. Finally he put the hand down. He reached over and gently straightened the points of the...
Page 57 - ... walked. The Italian mule skinners were afraid to walk beside dead men, so Americans had to lead the mules down that night. Even the Americans were reluctant to unlash and lift off the bodies, when they got to the bottom, so an officer had to do it himself and ask others to help.
Page 57 - ... or lay on the straw, waiting for the next batch of mules. Somebody said the dead soldier had been dead for four days, and then nobody said anything more about it.