That was a part of what I saw.

What during the same two months did the man at home see?
If he were lucky he saw the Braves win the world's series, or the Vernon Castles dance the fox trot.
The war correspondents who were sent to this war knew it was to sound their death-knell.

They knew that because the newspapers that had no correspondents at the front told them so; because the General Staff of each army told them so; because every man they met who stayed at home told them so.

Instead of taking their death- blow lying down they went out to meet it.

In other wars as rivals they had fought to get the news; in this war they were fighting for their professional existence, for their ancient right to stand on the firing- line, to report the facts, to try to describe the indescribable.