As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.

With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa (ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 1981) - ISBN: 9780195067149