Firefighter Cutting sounds a tad strange to me——and getting spelling wrong in the rug enforces my feeling.
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I guess you mean what the fireman saw was a tad strange. Not the fireman.
If a people has an everlasting grudge (or at least it seems that way) then it’s easy to see how they justify doing such horrific things. Cross them 1000 years ago, it’s like you crossed them yesterday no matter what benefit they got from you in the meantime. (I’d like those oil fiends to ponder where they would be without all the Western business.)
Devil’s behind it, as though that is any surprise observation.