You smugfaced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by
Sneak home and pray youll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
The War Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
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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.
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