Which excerpt from “Ambush” best reflects the story’s central conflict?

The story’s central conflict is the narrator’s struggle with guilt over killing the young man and his uncertainty about whether he can forgive himself. “Sometime I forgive myself, other times I don’t” directly expresses that ongoing inner conflict. The other excerpts describe the young man or the moment before the grenade exploded, but they don’t state the conflict as clearly.

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