Tag: Charles Haydon

Wars are waged by young men on battlefields. But, before that, they get trained up in camps; and before that, they were somewhere else, doing something else: perhaps working, helping their families, or being educated. It is one of the many cruelties of war that those men must pause their lives, and all their activities, to go fight and perhaps never resume them—for they may not return or, even if they do, they may return with no semblance of the youth and innocence they once had. And yet, despite this cruelty, there are seemingly countless instances of it.