The beginning of the day started out a little bit slow for me, and was unbelievably nerve racking! A big battle with such minimal experience, and besides, I had never even fired a gun at someone before today. But something that felt very strange to me today was that as I was going into this battle with little experience, my best friend Lolo seemed to already be a professional soldier and being by his side gave me comfort in some ways. Most of the soldiers in Unit E had very little experience and this also made me nervous, but overall if I were to mess up I would most likely be killed by Juan and not by any of the Loyalists.
The highlight of this gloomy day had to be fired straight at those Loyalists. I had actually shot at a human being, and a week ago this thought would have sent horrible chills down my spine, but today it made me feel excepted and finally a real Revolutionary. Even though I’m pretty sure I didn’t hit any one, I am proud of my self for being able to direct my fire towards them. I now am happy to say that I can share battle stories with Lolo and Ignacio while eating dinner or before going to sleep without feeling like a coward or as if I’m a lire. That is only if we make it past these next few days. I really hope we make it past these next few days.
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1 comments:
Phillipe...
You have done an excellent job here. The theme and images are right on target. For the most part your writing is solid too. A few of the entries are more of a re-telling of the story rather than reflecting from Uno's point of view. On the whole this is a terrific piece of work. Good job!
-Mr. Coyle
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