I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
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His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you'
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Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
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Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,
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