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Scene One: Soldiers Celebrating on the Front – When the Sand Danced
The sun hung low over the Suez Canal, casting a copper glow that shimmered across the soldiers’ helmets. The air reeked of gunpowder and carried the intoxicating scent of victory.
On the eastern bank, where just days ago the sand had swallowed the feet of Egyptian soldiers and watched martyrs fall one by one, the officers and soldiers now stood shoulder to shoulder, a single line stretching across the battlefield, as if greeting the birth of a new nation.
Cheers erupted, raw and untamed, mingling with muted cries of memory and loss. Hands rose to the sky, clutching the very soil they had fought for.
One soldier lifted his rifle high, voice rough and hoarse, shouting:
> "Men… we’ve restored our dignity!"
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