Wayne Vansant
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in atlanta, georgia, The United States
July 13, 1949
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February 2013
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“Kantorek would say that we stood on the threshold of life. And so it would seem. We had as yet taken no root. The war swept us away. For the others, the older men, it is but an interruption. They are able to think beyond it. We, however, have been gripped by it and do not know what the end may be.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“With our young, awakened eyes we saw that the classical conception of the Fatherland held by our teachers resolved itself here into a renunciation of personality such as one would not ask of the meanest servants—salutes, springing to attention, parade-marches, presenting arms, right wheel, left wheel, clicking the heels, insults, and a thousand pettifogging details. We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some of these things were necessary, but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front