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Victory and Pain

when the soldiers returned after winning the battle none of us found it strange the fact that in their faces there was not a semblance of peace we know the anguish by violating your own convictions hurts more than the bayonet that's why these young people who should be exulting with joy carry on their shoulders the weight of an unparalleled sadness

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Date: 6/6/2022 8:28:00 PM
The first six lines stand quite well alone, Marco, but the explanation as to why seems necessary, and you have done that quite well. Somehow I have always felt there is little joy in a victorious battle, for one must face the wounded and the dead.
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Marco Chies
Date: 6/7/2022 1:09:00 PM
I imagine the pain of wounding and killing, unwilling, is too heavy to carry, but a soldier is given no choice, of course.

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