It was not lost on the soldiers that they seemed to be digging extended graves -- the trenches -- to protect themselves from death-dealing artillery shells.
If art, craft and flesh offered relief from the death-dealing machines of war, as their murals proclaimed, it remained to be seen whether learning really was divine.
With dozens of families living in non-insulated tents and makeshift sheds, sans heat or water, and many more living in condemned buildings, conditions are death-dealing.