In ‘Journey’s End,’ soldiers reminisce and wait to die in the muddy trenches of World War I

Years ago, in a quiet German forest, a gravedigger for fallen soldiers stilled his spade and said: “In these bones, you see what war is like. I know war now. I'll tell you what it is. War is young men killing other young men they do not know on the orders of old men who know one another too well."

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