As Bourne came out, he could see shells exploding by the dump, with some shrapnel bursting, woolly-bears they called them, overhead.

Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.

So go ahead and embrace the suck of the first mile or so, you'll be through it soon enough.

Of all the ethnic groups, castes are the only ones which, if given an opportunity, would commit “auto-ethnocide,” that is, which would gladly shed their separate identity and join the main body of the society whose culture they share.