Galvanize (verb): to motivate action or excitement

In 60 seconds, the new wave of enemy bombs will drop like black rain from the sky, and the battlefield will become a maelstrom of destruction.

The sun was blazing in the sky, but there was no hope to be found in its light.

He aimed. He shot. He reloaded. And he repeated.

Exhaustion was filling each and every one of his fingers with unbearable weight. Through the eyes that barely got a wink of sleep, he looked forward but couldn’t see.

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Suddenly, the soldier next to him collapsed.

“No!”

His rifle clacked miserably to the ground as he threw himself forward like a bullet. The limp body fell like a wet rag on his hands.

Mud-covered golden hair that used to gleam like the sun itself. Dim blue eyes that were once starry with the hope of returning home a hero. A horrified gasp, frozen in death, graced the lips that had told jokes to all the older men. The lips that insisted on staying with the squadron of veterans, who reminded him of his father.

Unbearable grief surged through his hands and into his weapon. He shouted with a half-sob at his comrades.

“Screw this so-called noble cause!” His pained voice reverberated through the ranks of the elder soldiers. “I can’t care less about this cursed country! Let’s fight… not for the sake of victory, but so that the young ones can return home alive!”