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"Goodbye, I'm off to war."
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There was a caricature in the newspaper as Boy Scouts joined up
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along with lots of other people who weren't scouts in the war.
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As you well know, they don't come back,
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or a lot of them don't come back.
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It's part of the mood of nationalism and of imperialism,
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of the New Imperialism.
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Those two things are tied together and the expectation,
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indeed in many cases, as in the case of Baden-Powell,
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joyous expectation.
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You could test your virility in a more meaningful combat
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than simply slaughtering indigenous people,