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Anonymous File :-(, x)
This picture makes me emotional. If you think about it, those men lying dead on the ground were once people with thoughts, fears and dreams. The man lying dead by the truck has a look of rugged peace on his face and I wonder what went through his head in his last moments, I wonder what killed him and if I close my eyes, I imagine I can hear the cracks of the K98s and Lee-Enfields, the smell of the truck and the earth beneath me, of cordite and blood... I can hear my ears ringing and the MP40 in my hands dancing like a demon, and in the peace that follows, the songs of the birds in the hedgerows, and a warm breeze and the feeling of hot blood soaking my uniform... the coming of the pain as the adrenaline fades, and the fading of the pain with the coming of death.
There's so much to see in this picture, it's one of my favourite ever.
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