With the full backing of Dufour the divisional padre, Père Delarue, declared in his benediction words then widely felt in the army: "You died at a time when, if we believe in the speeches we hear, we no longer know why we die…."

QUESTION: What speeches and justifications had hollowed out so much meaning that even a chaplain questioned why soldiers were dying?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1295