Personal Narrative: My First Vietnam War

During my freshman year of high school, my best friend, Emilee, and I joined the Speech, Drama and Debate team. We participated in Serious Duo acting on the drama team. Our goal was to act out a ten to twelve minute short drama better than our competitors. We competed against other schools, and were judged on how well acted out our scripts. From the first time I stood up and started acting, I was hooked. That first year Emilee acted out a short play about two Jewish girls surviving in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, called “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”. Our season ended with our state competition in which Emilee and I placed eleventh.
For our sophomore and junior years, Emilee and I again performed in Serious Duo. We acted out dramas that were written by our coaches or previous teams. We never rendered an act that was truly our own. We managed to place third in state our junior year, but we …show more content…
We focused on the friendship that blossomed between the two of them and how they helped each other make it through the atrocities of working with wounded soldiers, being in a foreign country, and the feeling of being out of place in a “man’s world”. We depicted the gruesome wounds that soldiers would sustain in battle, the fear of being raped if you were alone, and the constant struggle with the idea of even being there at all. After they served their time in Vietnam, the two women returned to the United States, and their separate lives. We ended our script with the two of them finding each other in 1984 at the unveiling of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Neither one know that the other is there, but they meet again when their hands overlap as they touch the name of a soldier that died in their arms. Both of them are shocked at the sight of the one another, they embrace and talk about old memories. Finally one looks another and says, “You will always have a piece of my

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