An American officer in World War I wrote home: “You can truly think of me as being cheerful all the time. Why otherwise? I have thirty-eight men; and if I duck when a shell comes, all thirty-eight duck, and if I smile, the smiles goes down the line.”
A soldier's letter shows how a leader's cheerfulness spreads to his men.
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