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The Guard Notes: Apology

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Scavenger,

Even though my words may have little meaning to you, I would hope that you would at least safe keep this page for me.   If not for me, keep it so that somepony may find you and whisk you away to safety.  Keep it so that somepony will remember to forget the terrible Captain and to remember those who’ve died by his hooves.

 
Dear Reader,

Thank you very much for taking your time to read my thoughts.  I hope that despite my lack of some great plot.  You will at least remember those ponies of the war between the Holy Solar Empire and the New Lunar Republic.  They can’t be forgotten.  My apologies go far and wide to all ponies who’ve suffered because of this war.  The foals without a father take the thoughts of the brave soldiers to wash your fear away.  The foals without a mother take the thoughts of the kindnesses given by many to those in need and wrap yourselves with their warmth.  Colts and Fillies don’t let the scar of war taint your youthful innocence.  Run and play with each other, forget but don’t forget.  To the mares and stallions, it is you who I feel the saddest and most responsible for.  I feel as though I’ve taken many of your foalhoods from you.  I’ve taken your loved ones.  I’ve taken your fillyfriends and coltfriends.  I’ve taken your mares and your stallions.  To you, I feel as though I can’t say enough.  I feel as though I haven’t suffered enough.  It is to you I say, should it give you comfort or not, that every waking, no, every moment has been its own kind of hell for me.  Please it is to you all that I must say that I’m deeply sorry for all I have caused.  I say sorry to my parent, long freed of the world I helped to sew with death and destruction.  I say sorry to my friends who’ve simply fainted into distance memories or lay somewhere being picked at by wild dogs.  I’m sorry to my soldiers who fought so bravely even in my darkest of hours and may you rest in peace where ever your body now rest.  To the wonderful stallion who gave me a glimmer of hope in my darkening youth, I want to say thank you and hope that where ever your spirit rest that it is not ashamed of me.  I feel as though some pony may try to blame Ironworks for starting me on this path.  To you, I say nay.  I feel as though that even if I had not been invited into this circle.  These travesties would have still unfolded and that I simply became an important pawn in this cruel fate.  In short, somepony else could have been writing this whilst I would have been just a simple soldier or some blue collar pony.  To General Princess Twilight Sparkle, I feel that you, like me, became an important pawn in the madness that consumed your dear mentor.  I hope that where ever you might be hiding that you are forgiven for all the sins that you were forced to committed.  You were an innocent mare dragged into this horrible war.  I hope that you might someday be clad in your Shining Armor once again.  To Princess Luna, I hope that you go onto rule justly as your sister, I hope, once did.  I believe that you understand the temptations of evil far better than your sister ever did and you will not make the same mistakes.  Lead your citizens to a glory that would rival the old kingdom of Equestria.  To Princess Celestia, or High Empress as you likened, I hope that where ever you’ve run to.  Where ever you hide.  I hope that you’re found.  I hope that you suffer with the same guilt I’ve suffered with for so long.  I hope that you are forced to live and rule in the shadow of your sister as you once forced her.  And finally, I want to say

Thank You and Good Bye, Former Captain Oakwood of the Royal Canterlot Guard.
Just another tale of war....
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