War

War is many things. It is terror, blood, and dying. It is fear, revenge, and hatred. War must be hell. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to listen for footsteps of an enemy who is trained to kill me. I know that soldiers are trained to kill and indeed, trained to even die, but I cannot imagine what it is like to stare at the operating end of a military grade machine gun in the hands of the enemy and, in the nanosecond that it takes for the bullet to leave the weapon and enter my body, know with absolute certainty that my life is about to end. I think my life would literally flash b

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Approximate Word count = 518
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)

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