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Excerpt from Covered With Mud and Glory
And the old Classes who prosaically break stone at the side of the road or work with the Shovel, the pickaxe, the broom, making the toilette of the road of triumph, what an injustice if I did not mention them! How does it happen that the noblest soldier is always the one I chance upon? That is the miracle of these men; and when I tell you that on the battlefield of the Aisne the old classes, not granting that it was necessary to wait to the end of the battle before beginning to clear and rebuild, went OH into the hottest of the action to fill up craters, to break stones, to place tree-trunks and beams during heavy fire, without vouchsafing the Boche a single hasty gesture, so that they might the more quickly open the way for revictualling and for the bringing up of artil lery - when I tell you this, you will admit that they do not deserve a lesser greeting than their young ones.
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