Especially after what I've seen." He had lost interest in politics.
"There's something bigger coming," he said.

"Here everything seems to be going on much the same, but over there you feel it.

Something growing silently out of all this blood and mud.

I find myself wondering what the men are staring at, but when I look there's nothing as far as my field- glasses will reach but waste and desolation.

And it isn't only on the faces of our own men.