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Excerpt from National Defense, a Speech; The Swiss System; The Schools and Military Training
W these men is indicative of the response which is going to be made by men of their kind in the future. You are going to respond whether you are trained or not. What I want to bring home to you is that to be a really good citizen of a republic which is depend ent upon its citizen army you must be not only will ing but prepared, and I want to say to the parents and friends assembled here tonight that they must remember that these youngsters are going to respond to the call of the country whether they wish it or not; that it is a duty which the great majority of right minded boys will not attempt to shirk, and the ques tion I want to ask them is - Are they going to send these boys to us prepared to be efiicient soldiers or are they going to send them to us untrained and un prepared to make such sacrifice as they may have to make effective! This subject was brought home to me very forcibly the other day by a letter received from a friend in the West, who had just lost his boy in the battle at Ypres. He said: You remember the last time we met that I told you of my 17-year-old boy at school in England. Well, he left school and went into the Home De fence force, but this was not enough, and he trans ferred and joined a regiment at the front - one of the new regiments - and was killed at Ypres. It was sad enough and hard enough to lose the boy, but I shall never be able to get rid of the feeling that neither he nor his mates had a sporting chance; they were unprepared and un trained.
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