“"We had been stripped bare indeed....all these humble things, waiting mute for the torch, spoke to me of the other losses that could not be piled up and regarded: the daily gestures of tenderness between man and wife; the peace in a mother's heart at the sight of her sleeping babe; the unique and private memories of all the many dead.”
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