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Short Story Ambush
There is no such thing as a good kill.
We all think and had thought that over the years killing has always been the solution to our fear of the unknown, according to the author of Ambush he said “I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy” he didn’t see the young man who was coming out of the fog as an enemy and did not hate him but went ahead to kill him with a grenade. If somebody is not an enemy then he should be a friend, if it was not a matter of life and death why kill him? We are forced by the laws we obey to disobey our own will.
The story “Ambush” tells us about a soldier in war who never wanted to kill but did it anyway because he was obliged to do so. “There were no thoughts about
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