A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.