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"There is no dignity in death in battle. Mostly that is a splashing about of human meat and fluid, and the result is filthy, but there is a great and almost sweet dignity in the sorrow, the helpless, the hopeless sorrow, that comes down over a family with the telegram. Nothing to say, nothing to do, and only one last hope—I hope he didn't suffer—and what a forlorn and last-choice hope that is."

Jesus fuck.

Finished part two. How is this simultaneously the funniest book I've ever read and one of the saddest? This is the first book I've ever read that I wanted to write in, highlight, cut pieces out. I'm usually so against that. Reads like an autobiography.