We are now starting the Nursing The Troops section of poems. You need to post at least one comment on any of the poems, paying attention to the AOs, of course. You also need to respond to a comment made by someone else. I will start us off:

The women are portrayed as courageous in these poems whether they are dealing with the physical pain the men endure or the psychological trauma they are likely to suffer. The men are presented as distracted by gramophone tunes or memories of fighting or idyllic images of life back home but it is horror that leads us through this section and it is their loss that lingers.

C Macrae