Someone Else's Thought For The Day

It's actually the thought of a fictional character in a short story that I'm in the process of writing:

We tell ourselves that we send out our warriors not to die but to fight and win, but the fact of the matter is that some of them will die.

-- Dennis Aella Sterling, Nineteenth Emperor of the Flag, Forty-forth Emperor of the Third Imperium.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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