"Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!"
— War

January 1, 1970

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Jan Smuts, when seeing off young South Africans in World War II, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts - Man of courage and vision, p. 138. .