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Excerpt from Odd Shots
Why some men enlisted will always remain a mystery they themselves do not know. But for the most, the greatest recruiting agent was not a primitive desire for excitement, nor a parrot-cry like Your King and Country need you (with frenzied emphasis on the You nor any of those other ingenious advertisements which have amazed, and rather Shocked, our Allies it was not patriotism, as that word is usually interpreted it was not a collective virtue at all, but that Simple and old-fashioned feeling - amour propre. Once the war had started, and the country (as one frank recruit put it) was in a bloody mess, it did not matter very much where we were fighting, or whom, or why. The more comfortable a decent and peaceable British youth was at home, the more uncomfort able he became at the thought that the other fellow was taking all the risks. So he rolled up in hundreds of thousands to the recruiting offices, with nothing more definite in his mind than that he was going.
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