The Civil War: The Story Of The Sniper

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The civil war that the sniper the story show victims of the the two sides like the case of the war boy and old women they were just fight what they thought were right and to them it was the Free state. The sniper case was his spirit after he sees all the destruction that happen by his action and his spirit is crushed by the realization of killing his brother feeling lost. Watching the enemy fall like a doll it made a sadness come over like all he had accomplished was for nothing(‘The lust for battle died in him he became bitter by remorse). Feeling the backlash of what he had done and the sniper feeling remorse after seeing all the damages that had come out of the civil war and getting clarity to late. Unintended consequence he get for

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