User blog comment:Sgt.T.N.Biscuits/Capturing the true face of war/@comment-1650355-20100720173200

There's no doubt, people cared, but what I'm discussing is the efffects the war would have the simple ordinary soldieer who saw so many of his mates die in the battlefield.

No doubt some would be on the brink of insaity, others would be quite depressed, but we don't see much of that in the novels.