The handful of returning survivors will spend the rest of their lives thinking about their months of sheltering in trenches, ogling porn on an Android phone amidst the explosions and stench of corpses, as their golden summer of freedom and erotic possibility.
Not accurate. They don't have enough refrigerators to drive bodies all the way back. They are simply leaving deceased where they fell, and report them as 'missing in action'. Mass grave is like a luxury option.