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Personal Narrative-The Damage On The Western Front

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The war had dragged on for longer than anyone could have imagined. Damage on the Western Front. Millions dead. Food rations significantly reduced. Again. Everyone had seen those headlines. The same phrases had been plastered on the front pages of every newspaper for four everlasting years. Reports from aged soldiers; brave, bold boys and men; reduced to ghosts. And they were the lucky ones. Those who had escaped from the chaos that claimed the lives of thousands of others. [Although hope was broken and torn by the years of darkness, remarkably, some still remained./] And though there was little left, hope still remained. --- The twilight was noiseless, but for the dampened sound of my? feet moving swiftly through the grass. In the valley,
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