It's a bitter -sweet moment: we are all sad to be leaving this magical place, but equally pretty chirpy at the thought of seeing friends and family, getting a bath and having a decent meal!

这是一个痛并快乐的时刻：一方面，我们对这个神秘的地方充满依依不舍之情；另一方面，想到能马上见到朋友和家人，还能洗个热水澡吃顿美味大餐，大家不禁欢呼雀跃。

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But equally sad and shocking is the desperate future most of these soldiers face.

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While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

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