National guard Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Download Open image

““A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.””

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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