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Between You and Me

CHAPTER XXII
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That didna come until much later.
Sae, at the very start, a' our best went forth to ficht and dee.
Thousands--hundreds of thousands--millions of them.

And sae I come to those wha were left.
It's sair I am to say it.

But it was in the hearts of sae many of those who stayed behind that we began tae be able tae see what had been wrang wi' Britain--and what was, and remains, wrang wi' a' the world to-day.
There were our boys, in France.

We'd no been ready.

We'd no spent forty years preparing ourselves for murder.


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