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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

- General William T. Sherman, speech 1880 from which we derive the phrase War is hell

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Today in Military History

December 24

1900:

British authorities accept an offer of postal clerks for service in South Africa: this unit is called the Canadian Postal Contingent

1944:

HMCS Clayoquot is torpedoed by a U-boat and sinks in the Halifax approaches.

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