Something that people don’t get is how utterly, vitally important his time in WWI was. War is a forge, an experience that throws a young kid outside his depth, equipped with nothing, bereft of every external support he’s ever had, a brutal, peaceless experience that hammers him down into malleable essence to be remade into something greater.
He was a member of that brotherhood. He saw boys breathe their last while talking about home. He knows the harsh, deep yearning felt sitting in a wet, frigid hole daydreaming about christmas. He understands suffering to a far greater depth than a civilian, he understands what it was like for those boys to pass on hoping someone would look out for their girls back home.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/94e4e40e-91eb-484e-ba64-889d435a28a2
076萌SNS is a social network, courtesy of 076. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All 076萌SNS content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.