The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost by someone else. Now as she stood by her own door and listened to the cannons, it was with a chilling, dreadfully full and clear realization that men were out on the field beneath that gray cloud taking each other’s lives. Elisabeth Grace Foley
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In this quote, Ursula K. Le Guin portrays the life of a soldier. The war has become a daily, living thing in the life of the soldier and it has never been away for even a second. The war is an ever present fact in their life and it is something that they cannot run away to.

Their friends and family are at war as well and this has taken its toll on their lives as well. The soldiers do not know who will live, who will die or how long they will be gone from those they love. They know that the war will go on as long as they do and now, those two years have passed and they know that it is not over yet.

Source: War Memorial

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