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All are equal before the hideous shell, crashing, bursting, destroying, killing, and changing the fairest scene into blood-spattered wreck.
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Sumner highlights the indiscriminate nature of war, where all are equally vulnerable to its destructive forces.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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