"These fought in any case,
  and some believing,
            pro domo, in any case...

Some quick to arm,
some for adventure,
some from fear of weakness,
some from fear of censure,
some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
learning later...
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;" (Pound)

Thank, Charles, for cutting through the slag with EP's words.  The ex-Senator
is a friend of mine, and I can say with no hesitation that he, like most
soldiers, entered the fray for reasons that are an vague but powerful mixture
of the kinds of motives Pound identifies.  He did, however, never learn to
love slaughter, in fact, has spent his life recoiling from it, as witnessed
by his devotion to the anti-war activities that continue to this day.
Jay