A Lack of Empathy
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Last published Sat, Mar 7, 2020
Proud of those war heroes that risk their lives so that we don't have to. keep awake and away from their families so that we don't have to.
but are they themselves proud of it? Do they feel the same joy when they stand at the border looking down on the enemy and then coming back home to sleep on a marshmallow bed?
Do they still want to fight or is it the stars and medals they want.
What we see are only those stars and medal but beneath their uniform and skin there are many scars and metals and some of them don't want anymore...
Viren is among them with one more scar he wishes to erase.
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