...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute — though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

— Randall Jarrell Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

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