Under fire

A few years ago I was a few miles from a war zone. When the day wound down you could hear the guns in the dark. They were random and moved around. People there talked about it with a kind of brave humor.
I went away for a few weeks and came back. They told me that 22 people were murdered in a village a few miles nearer the gunfire.

It was probably just a medium term tactical goal. Entirely justified by military necessity.

Or some such bullshit.

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