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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- Thomas Paine ("The American Crisis")
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April 24
1885: The Battle of Fish Creek
1915: VC won by Colour-Sergeant Frederick William Hall, 8th Battalion, CEF, Ypres, Belgium (posthumous)
1915: VC won by Lt Edward Donald Bellew, 7th Battalion, CEF, Near Keerselaere, Belgium
1916: Easter uprising Dublin, Ireland
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