[transcribed 2021-06-02]

**You have the opportunity to meet a sniper in person and conduct an interview
with him or her. Write a paragraph that outlines the kinds of questions you
would ask and include your thoughts and the rationale behind your thinking.**

How would you keep yourself sane, mentally and emotionally able to continue, on
a day-by-day basis?

What were your greatest personal[1] regrets, during the war? Your most
important achievements?

What was the most tiring part of being a sniper in the war? (This kind of fits
with the first question..)

[1] haha intrusive wow i'm annoying  [<- NB: Pages.app comment.]

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Most of these questions are related to the sniper's personal opinions on their
experience of the war. Understanding their perspective on their actions during
the war seems like one of the most important and interesting things to do in an
interview with a sniper, since, from anybody who wasn't in the war's view,
they're just another human being mindlessly killing other people, some also
soldiers but some just innocent people. Surely there has to be something the
sniper did to stay sane while still knowing they were killing people, people
with real lives and experience with life, right?