:40:00
Well, you're almost getting
to be soldiers now.
:40:05
You stick with Kat
and you'll be all right.
:40:22
'We have been at the front
for a year. We are soldiers now.
:40:26
'We know this place well.
:40:28
'We are at home.
:40:30
'Only Kemmerich is dead but we keep
hearing about others in our class;
:40:35
'dead, wounded.
:40:42
'If a shot comes,
all we can do is duck,
:40:45
'because we can never know
where it will fall.
:40:55
'I can be smashed to bits
in a bomb-proof dugout,
:40:58
'of I can survive ten hours
unscathed out in the open.
:41:09
'Of course, every soldier believes
in chance and trusts his luck.
:41:13
'But no soldier outlives
a thousand chances.
:41:23
'We call them corpse rats.
:41:25
'They have shocking evil faces
and even on our empty stomachs,
:41:28
'it is nauseating
to see their long naked tais.
:41:38
'The bait is bread,
so rotten even we won't eat it.
:41:47
'they'll come among us
to snatch them away.
:41:54
'It's a way to pass the time.'