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If We Must Die, O O Kinsmen, We'll Face the Common Foe
i essentially i'm with pacasso, who very bluntly said, i'm against war. But one wants to make a distinction between the kinds of war that have occurred over the centuries. Let me ask you to read a poem by claude mc kay, dramacan american writer. If we must die, oh, let us nobly die, so that our precious blood may not be shed in vain. Then even the monsters we defy shall be constrained to honour us though dead. O kinsmen, we must meet the common foe. Though far outnumbered, let us show how brave and for their thousand blows, deal one death blow. What though before us lies the open grave, like men
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