Thank you for serving our country to ensure our freedom and rights! I will always appreciate you and the others who have served. Your sacrifice can never be repaid but your service will never be forgotten.
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2. The first sentence of a summary states the title and the author of the text.
Good question.. but you don’t really explain the question
Kovalf was a committee-man. He had been one for two years and he couldn't take that out of his own head. This only shows how much the Russian society used to value their titles back then and this might actually be true today.
Kovalf could never forget that he was once a committee-man, therefore to boost his own importance, even to himself, he started calling himself "Major".