The country that marched them to the front with speeches and music when the guns were talking throws them on the scrapheap when they come back maimed.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
The great Cloth Hall, which had been one of the most magnificent treasures of ancient architecture in Europe, was smashed and battered by incessant shells, so that it became one vast ruin of broken walls and fallen pillars framed about a scrapheap of twisted iron and calcined statues, when one day later in the war I wandered for an hour or more, groping for some little relic which would tell the tale of this tragedy.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
All that's left is to haul me to the scrapheap.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet