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お国のため [O kuni no tame]

December 23, 2006

It’s horrifying to realize how much the price of war is. At battle field, there are only limited choices left. You wake up one minute, you have to choose, moving forward as a brave man, pulling backward as your winning strategy, staying just where you stand as a coward -or so they say-. Eitherway, life and death are somewhere in between. The thing is, you never know in which choice you take does death awaits. It follows and haunts every single step you made, that what you can think and feel of is only your very basic animal instinct, to survive. Some of those fighters may have had strong idea on what they are doing, whilst some others may have never known why they are there and what they are fighting for, they just happen to be very ‘lucky’ to be chosen as those who serves the country. One thing should be noted, nobody wants to die in vain.

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