A Particluar Day: A Brief Story Of A Soldier

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It was April 5, 2006 a boy named Tom had attended a school out the outskirts of his little town named Millet and this town had a little population of 1,650 people but along with this was a odd history of the town being that it was a battle field from long ago. This particluar day Tom was at the school early to help his teacher with a class project that was for a class parade, Tom had asked his teacher for a bathroom break when he left the room and started down the long dark hall he noticed a man dressed in a nice uniform standing at attention with his hands to his side the closer Tom got to the soldier, the soldier would become more tranparent and when Tom got to the exact spot where the soldier was standing he smelt a fowl sour smelling oder.

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