humankind had gone down the sinister path of merciless fighting, the kind of hell that devours all fighters. whatever side they might be on, whatever country they hailed from. the day after the armistice, the very next day after the armistice the sinister task of counting the deaths counting the dead, the wounded, the disfigured, the missing started. here in france but also in all the other countries families waited for months on end in vein the return of a father, a brother, a husband, a fiance and amongst those that were absent, there were also admirable women who worked alongside the soldiers as volunteers.