Some of Lewis’s journal entries during this time record his anxiety about being wounded in the war.16 Almost until the day of his enlistment, in fact, he hoped he could avoid military service.17 He remarked wryly to his father that one of the most serious consequences of the war was the survival of those least fit for survival. “All those who have the courage to do so and are physically sound, are going off to be shot: those who survive are moral and physical weeds—a fact which does not promise favorably for the next generation.”18
