It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.’‘ Maybe it reminds them of school, ’ she suggests. ‘Didn’t someone describe the trenches as ninety-nine per cent boredom and one per cent terror?’‘ I don’t know about boredom. God, the chaos of it, the brutality. And it’s so vivid. I’d definitely be interested in reading his poetry, if only to see how he can go from describing, you know, people getting their guts blown out, to writing about love.’‘ Maybe it’s not that much of a leap, ’ she says. Paul Murray
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This is a picture of a woman, who is clearly moved by the war, looking at the picture of her son. The war makes her realize that her son's life is not as important as she had thought, and she now understands that he is really fighting for his life. She is glad that she listened to him and allowed him to join the war, because now she realizes that he was right all along.

Source: Skippy Dies

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