Mud and Ashes

He saved three soldiers, but he could not save their souls, or his own. He had seen severed legs, poison gas, and the nameplates of nineteen-year-olds. In the end, he realized that all a doctor could do on the battlefield was decide the order in which Death claimed his patients. Everyone thought the war was over. But they did not know that some had died on the battlefield long ago. Those who survived were only shells still capable of breathing. Step into this world of mud and ashes and see for yourself: all that remains is a group of people chewed up by war.