Day 1,403: recreant, court-martial, desertion

The recreant soldier was captured and court-martialed for desertion.

Artwork of the day 
Deserter
Ilya Repin
Original Title: Дезертир
Date: 1917
Style: Realism
Genre: portrait
Media: oil, linoleum
Location: Vitebsk Museum of Fine Arts, Vitebsk, Belarus
Dimensions: 43.5 x 31 cm

Word of the day 
recreant:  unfaithful, disloyal, one who exhibits these qualities 
desertion: the act of leaving the armed forces without permission
court-martial: (a trial in) a military court for members of the armed forces

Quote of the day
“Senator H. V. Johnson said: I believe we should be recreant to our noble mission, if we refused acquiescence in the high purposes of a wise Providence. War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has also been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness. . . . It is in this view, that I subscribe to the doctrine of “manifest destiny.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present