We passed dead men of both armies, but many more Boche than Americans. I was surprised at the indifference I felt toward dead Americans - they seemed a perfectly natural thing to come across, and I felt absolutely no shudder go down my back as I would have had I seen the same thing a year ago.

Lieutenant Phelps Harding, American Expeditionary Force, in a letter, 1918

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