The official history text for the war, as written by the Alliance,
naturally, was the first place the speech was exposed to the wider world. After
all, prior to that point, only the thousand or so troops that began the Battle
of Longneck heard it, and only the hundred or so that survived were able to
share it.
The speech quickly got a life of its own, as it becomes the
symbol of the war effort, of the bravery of the soldiers, and it becomes the
words of a generation.
Such a shame they didn’t include all the swearing though.
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