0 If you describe soldiers as cannon fodder, you mean that they are not considered important by their officers and are sent into war without their leaders worrying if they die.
I would not have them shot.' Much has been made of a statement that I declared that men were fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
The common people—the cannon fodder, the men who would die, and the women who would weep: they should be given something more than the privilege of either cheering platform patriots or being summoned for interrupting public meetings.
Wasn't he a bigger asset to America as an alive engineer, an expert in his work, than as mere cannon fodder, one of thousands to be shot into junk in a morning's "activity"—just one of them?
I come from the generation born within five years of the first world war; we were just old enough to be cannon fodder almost throughout the second world war.
They are the cannon fodder for the next war.
It is all very well to be cannon fodder.
They treat nurses as cannon fodder and do not recognise their skills with proper wages.
