horrors of war

Frater Paul Crépin in a letter to Fr. Dehon:

"Very Reverend Father.... We find no trenches here, only shell holes full of water, in a famous wood of which remains nothing any more but some miserable wretched stocks which the shells did not want to eradicate. All around us nothing but devastation: I cannot discover two meters of ground which hasn't been rolled over; old corpses that I commit myself to finally bury” (28.1.1918)
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