~J.D. Souza, Class of 2027

BOOM!

We are going to the beach… Get ready.

The door opens.   i jump out of the boat into the water.   i hear builts wheezing past me. I hear screaming behind me like a pack of wolves when there’s a full moon. I see soldiers gasping for air, trying to get to the beach.

My general says to me. “This is a war kid!!!!”

My name is JD. I am a soldier that Enlisted in the army for the United States.  my family said to me that i should not enlist in the army but i said to my parents that if people give up their lives  for me and are country then why can’t i help them. So I enlisted in the army right away and got right into training. I went through the toughest training of my life. After my 2 year training I was called up to storm the beach at Normandy to try to fight German forces. The code name for this mission was called D day.

Before I knew it i was on a tiny ship going to Normandy away from all i know and love am with people who i never seen before. My heart was pounding with fear and a little excitement.The doors flew open, I jumped out the side.i went behind the ship to take cover but then i felt a sharp pain in my foot the water slowly turned dark red.

I was so scared it happened so fast that I was like how am i going to get to the beach when I am already shot. I swam until we finally behind the the big blocks of metal that were used to try to block are ships but they were used to are advantage to take cover from enemy attack.luckily there was a medic on standby but that was no use cause then I realized that it was a soldier who i guess was scared but like who Wouldn’t be this is war not a nerf gun battle.but he was holding the medic that got shot and died.so now I have to swim to the beach with a wound and try to dodge bullets at the same time. luckily it wasn’t that bad of a wound i could still move.

I slowly moved behind the metal blocks. Finally I felt sand. The water was so cold I crawled  around the beach until I met up with fellow soldiers hiding behind the big wall of sand. There was a medic there so I got all patched up. Our group tried to make a way forward. The German forces were running low on ammo and men so we pushed up the hill and took over the base. 

We did it. We celebrated like we won the war already but we knew we had some more to do.