Soldiers and dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of fire lit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Siegfried Sassoon, (Sep 8 1886-1967), English poet, soldier, author; He is best known for his semi-authbiographical triology which includes the prize-winning Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, 1928