Robert Browning

"Mr. Fleming, you never was frightened much in them battles, was you?"
The veteran looked down and grinned. Observing his manner, the entire group tittered. "Well, I guess I was," he answered finally. "Pretty well scared, sometimes. Why, in my first battle I thought the sky was falling down. I thought the world was coming to an end. You bet I was scared."

The above paragraph says a lot about the authors opinion on war, which is indirectly what this paragraph is saying about war. A word that really showed opinion and stuck out to me was scared, that word shows that the author has a fear of war, it also shows that he is not a supporter of war, and also that he wouldn't be on to fight in war. The other thing that really stuck out to me was the group of sentences that reads, I thought the sky was falling down. I thought the world was coming to an end. You bet I was scared." This is supporting my earlier of fact of war being scary along with the fact that Mr.Crane thinks that war is so chaotic that someeone fighting in battle would think that the world is coming to an end.