"Whiles I've thocht it would ha' been better had I stayed oot there----" Weel, I ken that that's nae sae.

I'd gie a' the world tae ha' my ain laddie back, no matter hoo sair he'd been hurt.

And there's never a faither nor a mither but wad feel the same way--aye, I'm sure o' that.
Sae let us a' get together and make sure that there's never a look in our een or a shrinking that can gie' any o' these laddies, whether they're our kin or no, whether we saw them before, the feeling that there's any difference in our eyes between them and ourselves.
The greatest suffering any man's done that's been hurt is in his spirit, in his mind--not in his body.

Bodily pain passes and is forgotten.

But the wounds of the human spirit lie deep, and it takes them a lang time tae heal.