“Soldier’s Heart” by Gary Paulsen Chapter 6 – Farming

Those soldiers would be left. The surgeons were too busy with amputations and treatable injuries to spend time on those with stomach wounds. It was an agonizingly slow death – it might take two days – and the pain left men screaming until they were too hoarse to make another sound. “I don’t want to die like this,” Nelson said. ................
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