blanks raze in slovokia, when you came of age you joined the army. that was just the way things were. though he never saw combat, george learned how to load a gas-operated assault rifle in the dark in sixty seconds flat. what kept most men going through the tedium and terror of it all was getting mail from back home. one day one of his friends got a letter from his girl. she said she couldn't wait for him anymore. she'd fallen in love with someone else. he pressed the muzzle of a gun to his jawbone and blew his head off in the barracks, in front of everyone. after that, george started opening the mail before it made the rounds. if there was another letter like that one, he did all he could to intercept or destroy it. failing that, he emptied the firearm of the soon-to-be afflicted and filled it with blanks. no one else would die by their own hand on his watch. 230624 what's it to you? who go blather from