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One day we stormed a French position. I confronted a French corporal; with bayonets at the ready, I killed him—tossed his rifle away, and ran my bayonet through his chest. Blood came out of his mouth. I felt physically ill, knees shaking, ashamed. My comrades were undisturbed and boasted of killings—one with a rifle butt, another strangling a captain, another hitting with a spade. They were ordinary people: a tram conductor, a commercial traveler, two students, farm workers. We were told that 'the good soldier kills without thinking of his an adversary as a human being.' But I had the dead man before me; I would have shaken his hand if he had raised his hand. 'a man who had father and mother and a family perhaps, and so I felt.' I woke drenched in sweat, thinking what would have happened if I wasn't quicker. 'Anything else? That's beautiful.'