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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
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 Siegfried Sassoon

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O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
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 Siegfried Sassoon
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
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 Siegfried Sassoon
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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 Siegfried Sassoon
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
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 Siegfried Sassoon