The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, and seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
