The War produced the first known casualties of heartbreak. Doctors were baffled. Normally clear-headed and thoughtful women who understood what their husbands and lovers were fighting for, would sigh, put their hands at their sides and die, as if they were simply waiting for the coffin to spring up around them. The cause of death in these cases was always listed as "Heart Attack". The humor is often lost on today's youth.
One of the new weapons produced during the War was the Body Bag Gun. It was developed in Salisbaria. It fired a self-sealing Body Bag that would envelop the soldier it hit, who would usually simply lie still until buried. This invention was heralded as a weapon which would make warfare convenient at last. In today's world, this may seem naieve: visions of armies facing each other armed with nothing but Body Bag Guns to fire at one another, and shovels to dig the graves of those who have fallen. Nowadays we know that the development of Coffin Guns was inevitable.
If you put all the tombstones for all the soldiers in the War atop one another, they would reach to the moon. There, they would wait patiently and futilely for flowers to grow around them.
"This War," Vice-Chancellor Tinsbury of Valkenvania said, "will be a fiction to our grandchildren. They will be raised never having heard of any of the strange and bizarre practices which we have come to accept as normal. We will have dissappeared from their world, spun off like a tiny bubble of reality, endlessly repeating our air raids, our quarantines, our rationing and our speeches, until finally we are forgotten entirely, and we fade like an old photograph."