The ex-soldier said it was "a monument to ordinary soldiers and I was an ordinary soldier".

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You would expect the ordinary soldier to be fiercer in defence of his homeland than he was in defence of Kuwait.

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There is too little sense of what life was like for the ordinary soldier caught up in the most colossal of conflicts, subjected after decades of peace to an environment for which nothing could have prepared him.

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No soldier I know wants to inflict harm on ordinary citizens.

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