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Sadden In Ayn Rand's The End Of War

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The next night, the soldiers crossed over the two pontoon bridges to go into the forest. While in the forest, they were on the lookout for the enemy’s uniform in the dark. However, they were unsuccessful and didn’t see the enemy during the night, and Henry goes back to being depressed about not going to battle once again. The next morning at the camp, however, he heard something going off and sees what is going on. He founds out that they are in a battle, and tries to run away with the crowd, something that Jim mentioned that he would do if he were in this type of situation. However, Henry is afraid that he would be slaughtered or ran over when running away from the war. Sadden that this might be his fate, he expresses that he would rather

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