Tag: civilized-behavior, concentration-camp, dead, death, indifference, prisoner-of-war, ptsd, unreal, war

It’s not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible — the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [..] But it’s not civilized. There is something indecent about it — really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [..] I have become so indifferent about the dead.