Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 106
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the mind, that is tuned for a normal state and an even stress, remaining balanced and sane.
Some men may come through safely and strong of nerve many times where Deaths cold finger has almost chilled their blood but a time comes to even those when they can stand no more and are brought at last to the bravery of admitting their fear, and dare not again face the terrors that they had endured.
The war as it is fought proves that the fiendish inventions of mans cunning to annihilate man are so terrifically shocking in their stupendous mechanical might against the frail and sensitive creature that he is himself that however he may with his reason and will power strive to endure them the nerves of his physical being must subconsciously suffer and for a generation or more seriously