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On another wall hangs a “soldier’s prayer,” signed by Flynn, that reads in part: “Let Your truth be my shield and buckler/Against the fiery darts — the lies — of the enemy.”

On another wall hangs a “soldier’s prayer,” signed by Flynn, that reads in part: “Let Your truth be my shield and buckler/Against the fiery darts - the lies - of the enemy.”

Small weapons of all sorts, from bucklers to broadswords, were piled within.

The now vigorous boy might go at his companions harum-scarum, with sword and buckler..

And so the England team is made up of bit-part players and stolid pros rather than swashers, bucklers and dashing leading men.