he served at the rainbow division amid the blasted of france in world war i when a runner was need today convey message during assault, private did not hesitate, when brother soldiers found body later recovered blood-stain dairy and in it words, my pledge i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice, i will endure. i will fight cheerfully and do my upmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me. so private died, fought and died a century ago but that same fighting fate endures and must endure in our time if our noble experiment in democracy is to endure. go back to those close combat infantry units i mentioned before, consider the latin root