Can anybody please explain this motto?

[misterchamp]

"No mission too Difficult. No sacrifice too great. Duty First!" The Big Red One's motto

From my translation, it means impossible for peace so there is always a mission ahead and there is always a loss. Did I get it in the right concept of this motto? Please explaln.

[Flo]

it means that for the Big Red One, there is no mission they can be assigned to that is too difficult for them to overcome. That for the Big Red One, there is no risk so great that they can't do it. That for the Big Red One, their duty comes before *anything* else. Basically it means that the Big Red One is tough as nails and reliable.

[KookiePoo]

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to
risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich.

Date: April 18, 1946

Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert (an Allied appointed psychologist), who visited daily with Goering and his cronies in their cells, afterwards making notes and ultimately writing the book about these conversations.

[misterchamp]

Originally posted by Flo:

it means that for the Big Red One, there is no mission they can be assigned to that is too difficult for them to overcome. That for the Big Red One, there is no risk so great that they can't do it. That for the Big Red One, their duty comes before *anything* else. Basically it means that the Big Red One is tough as nails and reliable.

Big thanks to you mate. My english is not good enough, your explanation is very clear to me thank you sir.