There's an incredible Diane Cluck song Battlefield Nurse that's very similar to the first part of this quote: https://youtu.be/Yd_1J_1lqnQ duck://player/Yd_1J_1lqnQ
Old men sending young men to die, while others deal with the nightmares that follow.
It was WW2. Not many people were safe, except perhaps in the Americas.
Meanwhile in Montevideo : Cattle go BRRRRRR