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Old 01-07-06, 11:25
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Default Re: 90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme!

I looked after someone in a residential home that fought in the first world war. The nightmares he used to have were horrific for him, he told me one night that he relived everything, and used to dream he was getting shot, and his shrapnel wounds would hurt as much as they did when it happened, but when he woke up, the pain was in his heart for the people he killed, for their families and his friends that got killed. He said whoever said war was glorious, never fought in a war. He's now died, and I hope that he has found the peace he was searching for after the first world war.
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