Killed in action Quotes

“Major, tell my father I died with my face to the enemy.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Went the day well? We died and never knew;
But well or ill, England, we died for you.”

“When you go home, tell them of us, and say
‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’”

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“And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come
Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,
Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes.”

“Much work for tears in many an English mother,
Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;
Many a widow’s husband groveling lies,
Coldly embracing the discolor’d earth.”

“Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
  From the field of his fame fresh and gory;
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,
  But we left him alone with his glory.”

“Yet for my sons I thank ye, gods! ’tis well;
Well have they perish’d, for in fight they fell.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best,
Struck through with wounds, all honest on the breast.”

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidove tergo.”

“* Τεθνάμεναι γὰρ καλὸν ἐνὶ προμάχοισι πεσόντα
ἄνδρ᾿ ἀγαθὸν περὶ ᾗ πατρίδι μαρνάμενον.
• How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand,
In front of battle for their native land!”

“Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
  There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
  Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
  That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.”

“If the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”; some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument?”