Soldados de Salamina
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1:05:18
You stand there and can't move.
1:05:19
Then you think,
"This is the end of my life."

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He was panting.
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He was scarcely 20 years old.
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He raised his rifle
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and aimed at me.
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Then I remembered his face.
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You knew him?
1:05:40
Only by sight.
From the yard at the monastery.

1:05:43
He wasn't police
or an intelligence agent,

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but a simple soldier.
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We never spoke to each other.
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But I saw him one afternoon.
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He was at one of the sentry posts
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and we were crowded inside a cell
1:06:02
overlooking the yard.
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Suddenly
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he started singing.
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Woe is me...
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mortal sadness...
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Why did Spain take me away from you?
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Why did it tear me
away from my rosetree?

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Do you know that song?
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"Sighs for Spain."
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I wish...
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again to be...
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the light of that ray of sunshine
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made woman by the will of God...
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You. Back to your post.
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Keep watch.
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Then an officer affectionately
cursed him and the spell was broken.

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But he'd made us all laugh.
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Some for the first time
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in a long while.

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