Waits and then breaks off and is only able to finish: "Second Company-" with difficulty: "Second Company-march easy!" Aline, a short line trudges off into the morning. Thirty-two men.
"We see men living with their with their skulls blown open" we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their spintered stumps into the next shell-hole."
"We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
All three of these quotes describe the horror and dificulty a soldier endures. Many of the horrors that were stated in the quotes cause soldiers to face shell-shock after they leave war.
Post a Comment