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The three of them felt melancholic upon finding themselves together in the Garden of Epicurus. The three of them, in three different ways, thought they'd never again meet to imagine what had already happened. The revolution had triumphed. The troops had refused to fight in Africa and Asia. There was an uprising at the military air base. The soldiers said no. They said no because they'd finally put two and two together and understood the meaning of cannon fodder. Because they realized they'd never come home from the war. Because they found out that President Solibor and his financial allies, Burgdorf and Krebs and Malines, needed dead or sick soldiers to justify the deploying of new troops and their profitable world of guns and transportation, ammunition and barracks, bribery of African and Asian government officials, mercenaries as a last resort, unemployment.
And they said no.