All Quiet On The Western Front

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awaits them on the battle field. Many of their comrades will die before their very eyes. And for what? They don't know what their fighting against, they're fighting a war that isn't their own. But rather the war of the political leaders of several countries, whose arrogance cost the lives of so many young men. A war can never be fully justified, how do you justify the loss of human life? They know nothing of life but despair, death, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. The war has destroyed them, before they had a chance to live.

''We loved our country as much as they;
we went courageously into every action
but also we distinguished the false from
the true, we had suddenly learned to see.
And we saw that there was nothing of
their world left. We were all at once
terribly alone; and alone we must see it
through.''

It's hard for us to imagine what it must have ...

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