We are trying to show him not only what we are fighting against, but what we are fighting for. So many of these boys have only a very hazy idea of the real issues of the war. About all they see is “going back to the good old days.” This is a dangerous state. If they don’t stand for something, they will fall for anything. They need to realize that we are fighting two wars—the war of arms and the war of ideas—that other war of which the war of arms is one phase.
– Dr. Gordon A. Eadie on Mental Health needs for war veterans, using a Boston saying on “standing for something”, January 1945
A bit of a pretentious knobhead with thoughts too big for his head and a need to get them out to leave room for other things.