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tdogchristy90

So I wasn't sure where to put this....

 

I'm trying to remember a phrase/quote by a general...I think ww1 maybe?

 

Anyway he was basically saying that military people take a oath of unconditional liability. In civilian life we can leave our place of employment if our rights our questioned...in the military they must be willing to give their all...there's a phrase for it but I can't for the life of me remember it.

 

Any thoughts?

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bootsandbooks

This comes to mind:

 

Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die.

 

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Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade

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bootsandbooks

And this somewhat similar theme:

 

Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank,

Not lured by ambition, or goaded by necessity,

But in simple obedience to duty as they understood it,

These men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died.

 

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Confederate Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

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bootsandbooks

This is on a memorial in my home town. It is said to have been a favorite of General Norman Schwarzkopf.

 

Here lie we dead

Because we did not choose

To live and shame the land

From which we sprung.

 

Life, to be sure,

Is no great thing to lose

But young men think it is

And we were young.

 

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A E Housman (I believe this was written prior to WWI)

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tdogchristy90

It's a phrase coined by the general, but I can't remember the phrase. Ie "unconditional liability"...or something like that. Oh well.

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Lt General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, KCB, CBE., DSO, MC

 

You are probably thinking of this one from his lecture "The Profession of Arms":

"The essential basis of the military life is the ordered application of force under an unlimited liability. It is the unlimited liability which sets the man who embraces this life somewhat apart . He will be (or should be) always a citizen. So long as he serves he will never be a civilian."
Dennis
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tdogchristy90

BINGO!

 

 

Lt General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, KCB, CBE., DSO, MC

 

You are probably thinking of this one from his lecture "The Profession of Arms":

"The essential basis of the military life is the ordered application of force under an unlimited liability. It is the unlimited liability which sets the man who embraces this life somewhat apart . He will be (or should be) always a citizen. So long as he serves he will never be a civilian."

 

Dennis

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tdogchristy90

You could sign up for an enlistment and learn 1st hand.

Medical issues, VP shunt keeps me from serving.

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