Creative Writing: My Decision To Win The Vietnam War

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See You Next Spring “Wake up! Riley, wake up!” but it was too late, Riley was frozen shut by the whirling winds of winter. It is now December, 1777, and we just arrived in Valley Forge, 16 miles outside of Pennsylvania. It is awful here, our cabins are filled with smoke from our only heat source, and we have barely any clothes to keep us warm through the frozen winter. Many of us are grieving on the thought of staying, and now just trying to survive instead of being centered on saving our country from all of the British’s laws. Many of us are thinking about mutiny on General Washington because we believe that he is doing nothing to help our horrible living conditions. Why do they get to live in nice huts and have nice clothes when we are the ones helping them win this war. The question that everyone is asking now is, “Are you going be the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot or are you going to stay?” Are you going to just give up just like that? Yes, I have decided to not reenlist for three reasons- I am home …show more content…

Frostbite is a scary thing to get for fear of amputation, and there were no pills to make the pain go away so you would just have to sit there while they would saw off one of your limbs. Dr.Waldo described life at the fort as a struggle, unbearable, and not at all easy, and he was a hundred percent accurate (Doc C Waldo 151). The death range in Valley Forge is ( from December through June ) is 1,800 to 2,500, and there is a total of 20,000 soldiers at the Valley ( Doc A Busch 147). The weather here is horrid here, it is like a great wall of suffer pushing you closer and closer to a cold brick wall. This reason is causing me to not reenlist because I do not want to suffer at a horrifying camp for 9 more months. If I die at camp I wouldn’t have gotten to see my family once more,l and I love my family more than words can

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