The Long Drag Back to Eepras

The November rains were chilling us, freezing us. Our feet were always soggy and we were almost despondent. We seemed to move in the days to do things as if they were automatons. When it grew dark we moved again to form a new line. The Hun spotted us and started shelling while machine gun fire raked the ground. I saw a body just in front of us, a big man with his equipment over his great coat. Pull him back here and we'll use him for part of our parapet. A salvo of shells came and exploded, whizzing fragments were all around me but I was not touched. Up him fell and was dead when