Nin War

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    “The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.”
    —Anaïs Nin (1903–1977)

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.