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Thursday, February 14, 2008

If I was a soldier in WW1 or WW2, and camp was fighting on the front, I would probably have shot myself on the foot to escape having to fight in trenches filled with mud and human defacation and corpses. Though actually I think there's a penalty for doing that.

I used to watch some films about soldiers fighting on the front while they took a torn and tattered picture of their family, looked at it, and cried silent tears. I wondered if homesickness was really that bad. I thought what drove people crazy were the constant bombs and air raids and mustard gas, and the fear of stepping on a land mine while running for shelter. I thought the sight of your friends dying and having to eliminate lives was what caused shell shock.

I never knew that just being away from home felt like your heart had been ripped out by a merciless beast who refused to kill you yet kept you alive just enough for you to feel the pain. No wonder soldiers went crazy after the war. I don't blame them.

Sudden realisation, I don't have to go for NS. Now be happy Kerryn!

My Kitchen blogged at Thursday, February 14, 2008

May your light shine...
in the darkness...