Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 150
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brought into this world somehow I feel that if I was to die tomorrow I have not lived in vain but have done my little bit to clear this world of the greatest monster of all times. I expect we will fully appreciate our position when we begin to get closer to dear old Aussie & our dreams are about to be realized. I am sure that is what has kept most of us alive all through this awful war, the very thought that we would one day return to our native land & get among our own people again. I know it has kept me going many & many a time when life has not seemed worth living & everything hopeless, & yet after all fighting is a most necessary evil in this old world. I reckon nations go backwards without wars look at Spain for instance what a decadent nation she is, she wants a good hard struggle with a nation her own match to develop her manhood &