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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 769<br />
| date = July 21, 2010<br />
| title = War<br />
| image = war.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext =They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The comic starts off with the commonly known stereotype of a soldier in war writing a letter to his sweetheart (Cordelia), presumably at home. After the gunshots interrupt his writing, we come to know that Cordelia is actually fighting on the opposite side - it is left open whether they are in an actual relationship or the soldier just writes love letters to his enemies. He explains to her he can now locate her after she shot a decoy set up by him, closing with the phrase "War is hell", often used in the stereotypical situation described above and now having a much darker tint. The alt text gives the reader some kind of closure - the soldier is revealed to be [[Beret Guy]], from whom this kind of behaviour doesn't seem so weird after all.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
[A soldier is on the ground behind a low wall, writing a letter.] My Dearest Cordelia, It has been far too long since I last gazed upon your lithe and supple body through my telescopic sights, and I fear you may have found a superior vantage poin-- <BLAM!> <BLAM!> <BLAM!> --a splendid effort, my love, but your shots find only a decoy, and reveal your position atop the maintenance shed. I pray this missive and my grenades find you well. War is hell. {Title text: They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]</div>Yosushttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=769:_War&diff=14206769: War2012-10-08T21:35:01Z<p>Yosus: Created page with "{{comic | number = 769 | date = July 21, 2010 | title = War | image = war.png | imagesize = | titletext =They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my..."</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 769<br />
| date = July 21, 2010<br />
| title = War<br />
| image = war.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext =They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The comic starts off with the commonly known stereotype of a soldier in war writing a letter to his sweetheart (Cordelia), presumably at home. After the gunshots interrupt his writing, we come to know that Cordelia is actually fighting on the opposite side - it is left open whether they are in an actual relationship or the soldier just writes love letters to his enemies. He explains to her he can now locate her after she shot a decoy set up by him, closing with the phrase "War is hell", often used in the stereotypical situation described above and now having a much darker tint. The alt text gives the reader some kind of closure - the soldier is revealed to be [[Beret Guy]], from whom this kind of behaviour doesn't seem so weird after all.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
[A soldier is on the ground behind a low wall, writing a letter.] My Dearest Cordelia, It has been far too long since I last gazed upon your lithe and supple body through my telescopic sights, and I fear you may have found a superior vantage poin-- <BLAM!> <BLAM!> <BLAM!> --a splendid effort, my love, but your shots find only a decoy, and reveal your position atop the maintenance shed. I pray this missive and my grenades find you well. War is hell. {Title text: They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>Yosus