Stories of war invalids about injuries and experiences of treatment in a military hospital

The memoirs of war invalid Bronius Tvarkūnas describe his joining the army in Panevėžys, his first training, and his familiarization with a rifle. The first experience of battle is described, and when retreating from Panevėžys, the volunteer explains that it was not so much the strength of the enemy as the weakness of our commanders.

It describes how B. Tvarkūnas dismantled the rails of a Bolshevik train and the latter fell off the rails, while the wounded inside screamed. Although the Bolsheviks escaped with the wounded, Lithuanian soldiers collected their property. In the battles with the Bolsheviks near the Pajuostė Manor, B. Tvarkūnas was wounded and became a war invalid, and in the military hospital he suffered another serious blow, because B. Tvarkūnas' brother died of his wounds there.

In the memoirs of the war invalid who took the pseudonym Liudas Sakalinis, much attention is paid to the description of the injury. The soldier conveys how he slowly "sinks into the abyss", feels a horseman passing by him, feels enemy soldiers dragging him, and shells explode around him, releasing fountains of shrapnel. The experience of the injury is replaced by an experience in a military hospital, which records trembling, a desire to drink, and the cries of the young soldier "mommy, mommy".