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The bread we ate, the stagnant water we drank,
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everything we touched had a rotten smell.
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Death simply numbed."
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An Austrian soldier-- here's some examples I took from the
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other front, too, but why not?
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A violinist wrote, "a certain fierceness arises in you,
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an absolute indifference to anything the world holds
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except your duty of fighting.
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You're eating a crust of bread and a man is shot dead in the
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trench next to you.
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You look at him calmly for a moment and then you go on
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eating your bread.