A million bullets were fired at each of us, not to count thousands of pieces of shell, shrapnel, canister, grape, and slashes of swords.

Take any ratio of percentage you please and something should have got us.

According to every rule of algebra, not more than one of us three should be alive now.

Yet here we are." "Maybe your algebra is wrong ?" "Impossible.

Algebra is the most exact of all sciences.