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Vietnam

Well, this is it. Today I leave my home in Greensville, Maine for . I am going to fight for my country. I am only nineteen years old and I know very little about the war. For better or worse I was drafted early last week.
The week had started out normal, and my life seemed perfect. My girlfriend Abbey and I had been together for almost two years, and I had recently gotten a new job at a local car repair shop. I was also saving up to attend college next fall. One night when I came home I was surprised to find my mother on our couch crying next to my father. She soon told me that she had found I that I was drafted and was going to leave for in one week. How could this happen to me, this ...

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Abbey deal with this? Everyone here hates the war and just wants to go home to their families. Everyday dozens of men are shot or killed by land mines, and I am really becoming depressed. I have seen so many men die just inches away from me. All I can think of is that could be me. I have come to the conclusion that war is the most awful and barbaric thing that anyone would ever have to go through, and I hate it.
One night, in my sleep, I had a dream about being back home. I was with Abbey and my parents and all of my friends. I missed them all so much. I wanted to go home. I needed to go home. I later woke up and found myself crying. That's when it hit me, like a wild fire burning through my chest. The pain was so intense that I could hardly breathe. I had been shot. I was going to die. I was never going to see my home again, never see my family again. I would never again be able to see Abbey. I was never going to see the light of another ...

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Added: 5/3/2008 05:06:24 AM
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