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I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, C. Scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and raw from corn husking.
Scourge is something that causes suffering.</span>
The cartoonist is looking to reform the school system, if you look closely to the picture there is a public school outside of the "loop" and the private school is in the loop
Answer:
the argument or suggestions that he is making it that civilians can honor the dead only by honoring and helping out their families.