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gated the wrangle. This learned debate complicated the enlistment proposition, and the men themselves took it up, discussing the question at their camp fire courts. Presently we’ll see what effect this had at Queenstown. It hurts mightily to rake all these skeletons out of my family closet, but I couldn’t stand to look at them if we had not through later years absolutely demonstrated the courage and capacity of American volunteers—once they had been trained and are under rigid discipline. I merely want to impress upon you the fact that our boys need work and steady training before they’re worth a hang as soldiers.
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