Monicat Meowvez

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Once you’ve had the experience of bombs raining down on you, it’s impossible to think of military campaigns the same way. For most people on the ground, war is not an academic or geopolitical exercise. It’s a deeply personal one. Once you’ve lived with the random, indifferent specter of death hanging over you, it’s an everyday terror you never totally relinquish. Whenever I hear about some village in Myanmar or Artsakh or Afghanistan being bombed, I can feel that terror somewhere deep in my core plucked like a tuning fork.
Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
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