The Wet Bond of Blood - Relationships Forged in Combat

Show me the two so closely bound
As we, by the wet bond of blood,
By friendship blossoming from mud,
By Death: we faced him, and we found
Beauty in Death,
In dead men, breath.

From one combat veteran and poet allegedly with PTSD -- Robert Graves -- to another -- Siegfried Sassoon.  The two fought in World War I, where Graves was injured and almost died; and Sassoon was hospitalized for his PTSD.