World War Two-Personal Narrative

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Shells are dropping to the left of me I jump to the right and not fifty feet away another one drops and I scatter to my left I keep sprinting North into the enemy's territory and in the near distance I see a body on the ground with a brown suit. I slow my pace down to light jog and I approach the body and flip it over and to my surprise it is my wife. I jerk awake in a pool of sweat from my worst nightmare that I have had six times this month.

Today is August, 24, 1939 and it’s a special day today, the day that I leave for World War two and I only have one worry and that is the next day on the twenty five is when women get shipped out to war and my wife says she is going to war and I don’t want her to because of these nightmares I have been

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