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escape from hell so that we can kill them again once and for all at Armageddon?

               Why not just kill them now properly and get done? I think the system in heaven
               is ineffective and the known intelligence is poorly utilized. This is not SAP COIN's
               way of doing business!"


               They  looked  at  me  as if I was mad as I continued: “While you contemplate an

               answer let me share a couple poems with you since I love poetry, and I need an
               explanation from educated men such as yourselves. The first one is by a Roman

               citizen  named  Horace,  but  made  famous  by  and  Englishman  named  Wilfred
               Owen in 1917 and goes like this:


               Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori


               Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori


               mors et fugacem persequitur virum

               nec parcit inbellis iuventae


               poplitibus timidove tergo.


               And  while  you  are  still  contemplating,  let  me  recite  poem  number  two  by  Leo
               Marks,  a  SOE  officer  (Special  Operations  Executive)  during  the  Second  World

               War written as one-time code for SOE Agent Violet Szasbo, who would later die
               in  a  Nazi  concentration  camp.  But  note  Chaplain,  the  poem  was  not  originally

               written for her, but for his fiancée, who also died before her time:


               The life that I have

               The life that I have


               Is all that I have


               And the life that I have


               Is yours.




               The love that I have




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