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Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
— Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare · 2007
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
MacMillan measures the abandoned city by the people who once lived there. Heard in the opening and again during All Ghillied Up, the sentence gives the empty buildings a human scale. The silence suggests ordinary lives interrupted long before the soldiers arrive.
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