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If he’d been younger, I’d have wanted him for a son. If he’d been older, I’d have wanted him for a dad. But he wasn’t either, so I had to settle for being his friend and confidant. —Colonel Elliott P. Sydnor, USA (Ret.), in his eulogy at Meadows’s funeral, August 1, 1995 God and the soldier we adore in time of danger not before. The danger passed and all things righted, God is forgiven and the soldier slighted. — Found on a scruffy piece of much-traveled paper in Dick Meadows’s military effects. He noted that it was said to have been quoted by a veteran of the Earl of Marlborough’s army. It is probably a misquote of the following epigram by Francis Quarles (1592–1644). Our God and soldiers we alike adore Ev’n at the brink of danger, not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God’s forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. ...

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