Great War Failure

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Why? Aren’t we supposed to get wealth and prospered after the success in the Great War? It all happened too quickly. The company closed, the factories closed, all these rich people cut our benefit in order to protect their own money! Now they get away with little or no hurt, but we become the people who suffer the most. I lost my job at the factory a week ago. None of my co-workers survived this. We all become jobless, and we’ve been wandering hopelessly on the street all days. I hope I can find a job within a few weeks. It is all on me now, whether my family will starve to death.

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