Showing posts with label Walter Blythe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walter Blythe. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Ugliness of War

"...I hate the whole thin - the horror, the pain, the ugliness. War isn't a khaki uniform or a drill parade - everything I've read in old histories haunts me. I lie awake at night and see things that have happened - see the blood and filth and misery of it all. And a bayonet charge! If I could face the other things I could never face that. It turns me sick to think of it - sicker even to think of giving it than receiving it - to think of thrusting a bayonet through another man."

~ Walter Blythe

Pain and Death

"I don't think I'm afraid of death itself - it's of the pain that might come before death - it wouldn't be so bad to die and have it over - but to keep on dying!"

~ Walter Blythe