When a soldier returns alone from the front at the end of war - 

As Alexander Tvardovsky (1910-1971) writes:

“I know, of course

No fault lies at my door

That others did not come back from the war,

That other,

Older, younger men were killed.

Not that I could have kept them safe 

But failed to do so

And am thus to blame.

No, it’s not that at all.

But still, but still…..”

(Translated from Russian by Olga Shartse)