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Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The First Modern Slain

Archibald forbes, a war correspondent with the london daily news had this to say. The terrible, ghastliness of those dead trans did anything i had ever seen or even dreamt of in the shuddering nightmare after my first battle field. Yes, the first modern, modern deaths. That's how everybody dies now. It's goo. It's fuckin rules. But 18 70 marked the first time one was wrecked by soldiers who never even entered the city's borders. Far from horrifying the planet, it ignited a tremendous hunger for crup guns.

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