The Unreturning Army

The Unreturning ArmyAnd through some mooned Valhalla there will passBattalions and battalions, scarred from hell;The unreturning army that was youth;The legions who have suffered and are dust.--Siegfried Sassoon, Prelude: The troopsHe sits in the cement-block visitors' room wearing a brace on the leg that had been shattered by a policeman's shotgun, his hands plucking at his shirt or at his scraggly brown beard or at his denim trousers stamped with the initials CCI, which stand for Caddo Correct...