Sunday August 30th 1914: Letters from students on the front lines

Young men, students, far from home and loved ones, far from the comfortable life they have known, became accustomed to killing, to death, to horror and the gruesome sights of maimed bodies and dead friends and comrades.
"It's cruel to have to die so far from home, without a loving eye to look at you. A grave at home ... to which love comes and cries and prays, will be granted to but few fighting men."
They fight to stay alive, to stay human, to remain civilised, to help civilisation, to convi...