Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the last chapter of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, sits alone in a garden trying to recover from a poison gas attack and the deep emotional scars and psychological wounds of war. At the age of 21, he is already a veteran of three years of intense combat. Most of his friends are gone, their lives shattered by bullets, shrapnel, artillery explosions, and poison gas. Even though the year is 1918 and armistice is close at hand, Baumer cannot imagine peace, nor can he envision a time of when humanity will cease its insanity of killing. He wonders how he can return to civilian life, since he feels…
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