So far i have read 2 of the short stories.the first one was about some solders that got pinned down by a bunch of insurgents. One of the solders saved 5 other solders in that battle. He earned a bunch of medals for what he did. He didnt get shot once but kept running back out into enemy fire.
The second story was about when some guys went on a patrol in a heavily populated with insurgents. There quest was to clear all of the houses of insurgents. they went into the first house and 3 marines were trapped on the second floor badly injured. When they got to the second floor a grenade rolled into the room, before any of the marines had time to scatter the grenade blew up and shrapnel ripped into ever marine. two marines died of shrapnel wounds.
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Reeve,
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very interesting and probably something that a lot of the boys in the 8th grade would like to read.
I found it AWESOME that you called their mission to rescue the 3 marines their "quest"-- I am not sure if you even realize it, but you are now using the language we used throughout the whole Percy Jackson unit.
Can you give more detail about how the marines who survived actually got out?? Maybe you haven't gotten there yet but when you do, I'd love to know.