'I'm not a hero, of course, and I turn away in disgust'
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Card 7
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'The most beautiful girl I had ever seen... The pale purity of her face reminded me of the statue of St Therese'
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Card 8
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' I never knew love could be so agonising'
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Card 9
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'I wondered whether she'd been waving at Joey LeBlanc or me'
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Card 10
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'The Great Gatsby which I'd heard was a great novel'
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Card 11
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'Not like the war movies at the Plymouth, nobdy displaying heroic and bravado'
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Card 12
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I explode into weakfulness...my bursts of gunfire killed soldiers quickly, no exploding head, no body cut in two...I saw how young they were, boys with apple check, to young too shave, Like me'
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Card 13
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' The next day, the grenade blows in my face'
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Card 14
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'I wanted to be like them, these heroes, fighting the Japs and the Germans, going off to battles on land and sea'
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Card 15
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“It’s a bad luck place, people had said. A place of doom, others added”
