M1 Trench Narrative

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Boom! I fall to the ground; there's ringing in my ears. The artillery has bombed another trench yet again (Young 28). My m1 Garand is twelve feet away from me, and the trenches are filling with shrapnel. More explosions are bound to come, so I crawl to my Springfield semi-automatic (m1 Garand), still with the smell of gunpowder and smoke in my nostrils. But I continue to go get my gun I grab it and shoot the Germans pouring in the wood rotten trenches. Then I get out of the trench someone yells my name, ”VICTOR GET DOWN!” Enemy snipers are in the bunkers, along with the enemy artillery. At that moment I remember my dad lost his life in WW1 when I was just a toddler. Then John’s shot in his brain, Hell that's another death with more to come. I come out of my termite infested trench and run to Germen grown trench outnumbered and scared as I scramble in the trench but what's this it looks like they're all dead but all wearing gas masks. I pull one off and I hear the sound of gas; it's a trap. I tell them to fall back but it's too late. My lungs fill with mustard gas and I black out not knowing what will happen next… A month later she told me as I woke up and I couldn't see the only thing I remember is the blackout I guess when I got gassed I got blinded for god know when. But she took them my blindfold off and I could barely see. And then my vision is clear. The very attractive nurse is calling my name,” Victor” she says. I'm a nurse. Were at the Valley Forge General Hospital. (WW2 Military Hospitals) I'm in the intensive care unit. She tells me I'm fine and I have recovered from the “incident.” I ask where's my platoon. She says, “ They're nowhere to be found.” I'm lucky to have made it out, but only to go in. …show more content…
I come and he says what's your age son? I answer, 21, how tall are you? 5 ft 8 in’s. I didn't know they stack shit that high. And he’s the cap of the same group I led into that very trench. And he pushes me off the plane and I'm falling about 2,500 ft though the gun powdered smelled air. There's a flame heading towards me and I look and it barely misses me and it hits the cap’s plane and the plane’s falling down in the distance. That was artillery. And I hit the ground now realizing I'm on the battlefield. Bullets flying through the air. I look around and there’s a mist i, I can't see ten feet in front of me. There're GERMANS! They are moving swiftly there the fog. I bayonet four, and the fog clears and some says we're in 112 miles away from Hiroshima in the battle of Kurashiki. And I was shocked forever I saw the most devastating bomb ever dropped in history. The atomic bomb. Me and my crew saw the blast and took cover but it didn’t reach us. The war battle was over and i finally got relief and I go back and were back at home so now I'm not in harm's way. This was the story i’m talking to you about but why didn't you tell how you got home grandpa vic well because charlie that's not

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