absurdities of the war. didn t have white flags to surrender and waving chickens instead and retreating across the river water wings from oh, good lord. inflated condoms. very effective and something to remember if you re in a pinch. and then the darkness of war that this excerpt i think really sums up. blanks of typists in adjacent room up to 30,000 letters a month asking where they should be sent. over the years they have found swords and machine gun and t italian accordion and japanese life raft and thousands of diaries. even when the last soldier gone to the grave and made the earth lie lightly on his bones the