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These lines also show that soldiers are not the only victims of war. For example, during World War I many families were affected by the death of a son, husband, father, or brother who died serving their country. Subsequently, World War I took the lives of numerous citizens and soldiers. Sandburg expressed this particular problem through his poem "The Four Brothers": "The graves from the Irish Sea to the heights of the Caucasus are ten times a million" (Appendix 2.2) ("Sandburg and the First World War" 141). Being a reporter in Europe during World War I, Sandburg knew the circumstances of the war, he knew that millions of people were dying, so he added this verse to his poem to describe the outcome of World War I to the world. Finally, World War I affected the economies of the participating countries. This is demonstrated by “The Four Brothers,” a poem written by Sandburg at the time: “The cows are gone, the mothers on sick beds, the children crying from hunger, and the milk comes neither at noon nor by Night". (“Sandburg and the First World War” 144). This verse describes a serious problem experienced during the First World War; the lack of food and the economic collapse that affected the countries involved in the war, such as Germany (“How did the First World War begin and end?”). In summary, the elements described in this paragraph demonstrate that war causes many victims in different ways, which is why Carl