It was Sunday evening when the TV people showed up. The Traveling Veterans is what they called themselves. They were a group of older men traveling the world, and preaching the costs of war as they went. They were very popular, especially among the 13-16 year old kids who only listened to their gory stories for the sack of gore. In most cases the children in this town weren't allowed to watch TV, So when the TV people came it was heaven for them.
The group of about 11 men in their 70's took turns in front of a microphone in a small town hall. Their audience never exceeded twenty or thirty, but they felt this set up a better mood to tell their life changing stories of when they were forced to do in the war. As the adults listened, they expressed visual signs of remorse for the old men. As the children listened, their mouths were open in awe as if it was the first time they were allowed to use such a strange thing as the imagination.
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