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Innocence lost. Children play at battle. Men and children play at battle until they meet battle or war matches them, plus they find that battle is not really a game; those people who have seen, smelled, and tasted it do not glorify battle. Ambrose Bierce participated in one of the bloodiest wars in American history, and even though he survived, the battle haunted him the rest of his life. Today we have a name for the demon that haunts many of those "more lucky" who make it through: post-traumatic stress disorder. In World War I and World War II they called it shell-shocked. The fight of Chickamauga was surpassed in casualties only by the fight of Gettysburg.