quote about dad
Father would sooner him dead than in disgrace - was proud to see him gone
Quote from mum
Perhaps his mother whimpered how she’d fret until he got a nice safe wound to nurse
quote about sister
Sisters would wish girls too could shoot, charge, curse
Quote about torture
‘And misses teased the hunger of his brain’
Criticism of government
‘At the pleasure of this worlds Powers who’d run amok’
Expectations from home
Death sooner than dishonour that’s the style!
He’d seen men …
Shoot their hands, on night patrol. Their people never knew
Why did the soldier kill himself
‘It was the reasoned crisis of his soul Against more days of inescapable thrall’
Fire quote
‘Curtained with fire, roofed in with creeping fire, slow grazing fire, that would not burn him whole’