Win-Win War

A war that lasted for twenty-five years turned into a drama of absurdity in the seventeenth year. Major Adams's sense of smell had long been destroyed by the smell of carrion. Captain Strauss, who was in the German position opposite, was shot through his left shoulder by him seven years ago. Since then, he has waved to him every ceasefire day, like an old friend. Both sides tacitly shelled the no-man's land - saving the shells and selling them to the black market, and eating openly and openly. The war died of natural causes in the twenty-fifth year—no declaration of victory, just a cessation of military rations. When the soldiers left, the Germans took away the French ham, and the French took away German maps marking fake fire points. Berlin and Paris simultaneously declared victory. Forty years later, the pictures in French textbooks showed the tattered sheets used by German cooking classes in exchange for cans; German movies used the "blood stains of ketchup" invented by the engineers to make war movies. Now this sauce is called "blood of heroes." The two countries launched "one-day war tours" where tourists took photos in front of the monument and bought souvenirs from the same Chinese factory. Ninety-three-year-old Adams attended Strauss's funeral. The tombstone is inscribed "Savior of Europe". When the reporter asked who won, he looked at the back-to-back statues on the border and smiled: "Of course we won - that's what they said." Before his death, he burned all his diaries. There was only half a note left in the ashes: "We fabricated victory, but lived truly." Later, the nursing home was renovated, and the note disappeared.