Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are! - Ernst Jünger

We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.

The great solitude of the individual is a hallmark of our times.

In war you learn thoroughly, but the tuition fees are high.