Sharp Shooter finally returns home after being stationed overseas for two years. Only problem is, no one really sees him as a hero, or anything positive for that matter. With no job or family, Sharp travels to Ponyville.
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nice work! something i noticed
That's one hell of a challenge bigmac has levelled against sharp. Will he live up to the challenge? Will he prove his own courage? Or will he have to face the wolves and find the courage to tell applejack how he feels?
Find out in the next episode!
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Thanks for pointing it out, missed it. :P
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You're welcome, always ready to help
I really enjoy this story it's very well written.
awesome chapter mate keep it up cant wait for the next chapter
Excellent work as always! I love the pace you’re taking the story; it’s refreshing as many stories like this can feel too fast or too slow. The relationships between characters feels very natural as well
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Thank you! ;D
The part with sharp and the other two soldiers was my favorite.
You forgot an 'n'.
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Thanks! Though it would be kinda cool if it was the bar. Imagine it look like an ordinary barn, but they pull a lever and suddenly it becomes a bar. XD
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Yes it would. I thought you’d might be going for that, until I saw you use barn in the next paragraph. I think I saw a few other places where a word seemed missing. I'm hoping to have the time to find them later today.
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A bar set up in a barn sounds mighty cozy to me.
Anyway; do we have bets going on what Sharp and AJ's kids will look like? I'm thinking a gray coat with brilliant golden mane.
Sharp told those two soldiers what they needed to hear.
I just finished reading this and I just want to say something:
Thank you for writing this.
My own family has had similar treatment, my Uncles after Vietnam (draftees in the US Navy and USMC), and my father after he returned from his UN Tour (UNPROFOR).
My father was a Canadian Forces Signals Operator attached to the 2PPCLI's deployment to the UN peacekeeping mission to Bosnia/Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR). For seven days in 1993, faced with the ethnic cleansing of Serb civilians by Croatian forces, the 2PPCLI and elements from the French army, my father included, took a stand. They beat back several fierce attacks all while watching villages burn and hearing the tortured screams of civilians dying. When the fighting was done, UN forces had forced the Croats back to their original lines and restored the credibility of the UN mission. As many as 27 Croats were killed and 4 Canadians wounded, and the US Dept. of State estimated that the Croats destroyed 11 villages and killed 67 people, many of them Civillians.
That was the Battle of Medak pocket. It was the most fierce fighting the Canadian military had been engaged in since Korea.
It's also Canada's forgotten battle.
When my father's deployment ended, they weren't met with a jubilant return that befits a job well done, they were simply shuffled off to the side, out of sight, as if they were something to be ashamed of.
What they didn't know was that in Somalia, another one of Canada's UN Peacekeeping missions, a teenager had been tortured and killed at the hands of Canadian Soldiers, and the violence of Medak raised questions about their Peacekeeping efforts the Canadian Government didn't want to answer.
I was 8 at the time, and I had no idea this was going on. Father didn't talk about it except for one time, and I only learned he was there at my Father's funeral in 2012 from a family friend who had served with him and had come to be part of my Father's honour guard.
After 9/11 and an explosion of support for Canada's troops, which was greatly appreciated, the only thing that my father said about it, as he was getting ready for deployment to Afganistan (A deployment he would miss due to an injury), was "About time". As I said above, this was the only time my father said anything even remotely related to his time overseas.
My father was never really the same after that his deployment. While he didn't suffer severe effects of PTSD (as depicted in this story), there were times he'd stare off, sometimes mid-sentence, eyes unfocused. He was quieter and reserved, not at all like the boisterous fisherman's son from Newfoundland that my mother married.
All I can say is that you got this subject matter right, and you should be thanked for it.
I can't wait I'm so excited this story is so beautiful
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Since this is likely loosely based on WWII British military, it's probably a ponified Lee-Enfield No.4.
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Keep reading.
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Muchas gracias!
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Correct.
Granny Smith would be talking about great-grandfoals from Applejack, not grandfoals.
It's going to go down.