1:24:03
Barnes body landed on this wire
that was as thick as briers.
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It was hanging there
the next morning.
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It was only a hundred yards
from the line,
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but too far...
for anyone to fetch it.
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So we saw him every morning stand-to
and every evening stand-to.
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"Good morning, Barnett,"
we used to say to him.
1:24:28
"How's Barnett looking today?"
"He seemed a little peaked.
Looks a little plumper."
1:24:34
And he hung there...
1:24:38
well, at least
until we were relieved.
1:24:41
We introduced him to the new unit
before marching out,
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speaking highly
of his companionship.
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God, we were a witty lot.
1:24:53
Laughing at our dead,
1:24:56
feeling that
it was our death too.
1:24:58
But I tell you,
for each man who died I thought,
1:25:02
"Better you than me,
poor sod."
1:25:08
You know, a whole generation
was wiped out by that war.
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- You survived it.
1:25:14
Can't hurt you now.
1:25:16
No good to dig it up.
1:25:18
Oh.
1:25:21
Friend,
is digging itself up.
1:25:23
There is nothing in the here and now
to take my mind off it.
1:25:28
The parties...
Well, you were there.
1:25:33
Reading... I can't...
I-I can't concentrate.
1:25:37
There's no work, of course,
1:25:39
and, uh, love
and, uh, painting and, uh...
1:25:48
Drawing, I mean.
1:25:53
Look.
1:25:58
Your portrait, Clayton.