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The strongest ties between human beings are not cemented in safety, luxury, and comfort. It is in the sharing together of the scanty covering, the insufficient shelter, drinking from the same cups, eating from the same plates, the dividing
by a hungry soldier, the last morsel of meat or the remnant of a cracker, the binding up of each others' wounds, the lending of courage from one heart to another: these are what create the strongest bonds between human beings.
-- Horace H. Shaw, Union Army Captain, Civil War, 1861-1865
THE LENDING OF COURAGE FROM ONE HEART TO ANOTHER |