Wars are just another circumstance that brings out either the best...or the worst in us.
Here's a quote from a poem Rueben F. Scarf had on his son's dressing table:
"To my children:
Each day we live is the preparation for the
future of our life. The acts we sow today from the harvests for
tomorrow's reapings! What we reap today has been previously sown for us
or by us. Little in life is accidental!
Be not deceived that youth has special licence
to waste, to fornicate, to indulge. The law is clear - the law is
changeless and also just - use what you have that is good on which to
build your life. Thus every day will produce a succession of happy,
productive tomorrows
.
Despair not for your future prospects in life,
in love, in marriage. Your future is in your own hands. Daily you
prepare yourself for the prize or the punishment that is to be yours -
Industry goes not unrewarded - no self-indulgence unpunished.
Remember always:
The prize and the price are usually equal.
Don't deceive yourself that easy profits are the key to permanent
success. Welcome adversity as a friend, an ally. For it polishes the
metal of the strong and the wise. Also it erodes the will of the weak,
the self-indulgent.
Above all:
You are your best friend or you can be
your worst enemy."
What are the values that got our ANZAC heroes through such adversities?
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