Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Pentti Haanpää
From At His Own Graveside (1946)
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It was here, on the margin of the now silent battlefield, when the dead were being recovered for burial, that Matti Leväinen met his brother Antti, a driver in the Transport Corps. And to Antti he confided the sad fact the he, Matti, did not feel that he was cut out for war. It suited only such people as wanted to die, and even for them it was not really satisfactory, the killing being done on such a haphazard way, and inartistically.
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