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All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
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I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
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The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
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Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
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If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.