George MacDonald FraserWe stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
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Although there is no mention of the time or place in which this event took place, the context of this quote makes it clear that it was during the Korean War. As soldiers, we were not “scarecrows”; we were fighting for our own country. We had become warriors, ready to fight on behalf of our country’s freedom.
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