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Forcibly castrated
and with a red hot iron branded
In drought, left to die of thirst,
abandoned, stranded.
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Footnote:
Conscientious objectors have been labeled deserters, cowards, yellow etc. In the Civil War, one officer ordered another ofcr to brand on the face a soldier who tried to escape forced killing of other beings. Thisbranding has been forced on billions, trillions of cows, sheep etc.