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Michelle 2022-03-20 09:01:03
If it is free
This is the scene that shocked me: Wallace exhausted his last strength on the guillotine and shouted out the heart-wrenching words: freedom!
I once sighed that our predecessors threw their heads and sprinkled their blood to win freedom for us, but what are we doing with these freedoms?
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Bianka 2022-04-23 07:01:01
The end of the dirge, the beginning of the carol.
After Wallace's death, the distant sound of Scottish bagpipes was both an elegy and a carol. Mourning the hero's downfall, but stirring up the freedom of the Scottish people. I think there is probably no other instrument that can combine these two emotions like the bagpipe.
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Alastair Thomson Mills
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