When the government wrote to him saying ‘you need to go to war now, your substitute has died’ he wrote back saying ‘I am sorry I cannot go to war, I am dead’. He realised that he had a right to consider himself dead because his substitute had died.
Kama serikali inamwandikia na kusema: «Inakufaa kwenda vitani sababu aliyekuwa kwa nafasi yako amekufa », yule mutu atajibu: « Samahani, sitaweza kwenda vitani sababu mimi nimekwisha kufa ». Anaonyesha ya kuwa anajisikia kama amekufa sababu mwenye alikuwa nafasi yake alikufa.