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On the Tuesday a board of doctors passed Jim Denver fit for General / Service, having first given him the option of a month's home service if / he liked. Two days after he turned up at the depot of his regiment, / where he found men in various stages of convalescence -- light duty, / ordinary duty at home, and fit to go out like himself. One or two he / knew, and most of them he didn't. There were a few old regular officers / and a large number of very new ones -- who were being led in the way they / should go.
But there is little to tell of the time he spent waiting to go out. This / is not a diary of his life -- not even an account of it; it is merely an / attempt to portray a state of mind -- an outlook on life engendered by / war, in a man whom war had caused to think for the first time.