Arm

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Arm: Something that sticks out; a weapon.

Soldier: One who serves for pay.

I learned recently that an army's foot soldiers are called infantry because they are little more than children in age and experience. Really.

Arm is one of those words with many uses; firearm, human arm with elbow and fingers, to prepare for a fight, to prepare for anything, an offshoot of a river, a branch of a tree. I could go on.

Let's see; if you give arms to a soldier who serves for pay and he shoots someone he is told to shoot, he is a hero, if he is in the army of his country. If he is in another country's army he is a mercenary. If he joins the enemy's army for pay, he is a traitor. If he joins the enemy's army because he believes the enemy is right, he is an idealist and a traitor and a mercenary.

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