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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

Army, Fact, Parents

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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

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"The Army was my bread and butter."

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"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

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"They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old."

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"We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe."

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

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"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."

Jack Lynch, Irish Statesman

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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

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