Thankyou Sapper for sharing that, I had shivers reading it. My partner read it as well and she just couldn't understand why men fought.

What you wrote gave me a new image into the war as to what a wounded soldier faced, how his battle was not over even once he left the battlefield, for he still had to fight for his life.

I think "The Gates of Hell" describe it very well.

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They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We shall remember them. Lest We Forget