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| | Women at War |
 | | During the battle of Mons, too, there are stories of how the women and girls, proud to help their defenders, came right into the trenches under fire to give the soldiers food, fruit, and drink during that exacting time. |
 | | One of these girls, a soldier states, was no more than seventeen, yet she faced the noise of battle and the danger of bullets quite undismayed as long as she could do something for the brave men fighting the great battle for European liberty. |
 | | Not to men alone go the glories and the honours of this War, not for men alone are the trials and the wounds, the dangers, the deaths, and the grinding fatigues of the marching column, the rain-drenched camp, and the shell-seared firing line. |
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