But no evaluations of the Wild Tigers that rest primarily on its its finances, its military role can come to grips with the specifics substance of a true judgment. For the Wild Tiger movement was first and last a means to bring about a feeling of nationalism among the Thai people. The movement succeeded to the extent that it stirred in the Thai people a devotion to nation, a commitment to national unity. Here it cannot be denied that the movement achieved success; how much success remains the question. From the accounts and memoirs of some former members of the corps, there can be no doubt that many were stirred.131 Some men and many boys who had before thought of dying to protect their king, nation, and religion had the concept, as expressed in the very language of the King permanently etched on their minds. And the example of the King eating, and sleeping in the field with his wild Tiger comrades proved to many the King's sincerity.132 Yet the total group affected after small. When the corps was abolished by Rama VII no one rose to defend it; the corps a an institution was nothing with out its "golden bo tree shelter.'' 133 The essential idea behind the institution, however, had a life beyond the institution itself and its founder