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Soldier Boys Summary
In Soldier Boys Spence Morgan and Dieter Hendrick were at young age when they joined the army and they learn that it's nothing like they imagined it to be.
Spence Morgan was seventeen when he joined the army. He grew up in a very religious family and told the girl he liked that he was going to join the army and she didn't believe him. Three years later he was in basic training. he wanted to be a paratrooper so trained for that. During training he meets a kid his age named Ted Draney and they become good friends. After basic training he moved on to waiting for battle while sitting in a foxhole.Eventually they took the town of Bastogne. Then they found Germans hiding in the forest not that far from Bastogne so attacked by running down an extremely large hill. They got ambushed by the Germans and had to fall back and the Germans killed half of Spence’s company including Ted. …show more content…
He joins the army at age 15 and is paired up with Schaefer. Schaefer knows the the Nazi’s are the bad people and tries to show Dieter that they are but Dieter won’t listen. He also waits in a foxhole to get in a battle. eventually they learn that Americans are going to push down the hill and take them out so he mans a machine gun and shoots down many Americans that are running back up the
Soldier Boys Summary
In Soldier Boys Spence Morgan and Dieter Hendrick were at young age when they joined the army and they learn that it's nothing like they imagined it to be.
Spence Morgan was seventeen when he joined the army. He grew up in a very religious family and told the girl he liked that he was going to join the army and she didn't believe him. Three years later he was in basic training. he wanted to be a paratrooper so trained for that. During training he meets a kid his age named Ted Draney and they become good friends. After basic training he moved on to waiting for battle while sitting in a foxhole.Eventually they took the town of Bastogne. Then they found Germans hiding in the forest not that far from Bastogne so attacked by running down an extremely large hill. They got ambushed by the Germans and had to fall back and the Germans killed half of Spence’s company including Ted. …show more content…
He joins the army at age 15 and is paired up with Schaefer. Schaefer knows the the Nazi’s are the bad people and tries to show Dieter that they are but Dieter won’t listen. He also waits in a foxhole to get in a battle. eventually they learn that Americans are going to push down the hill and take them out so he mans a machine gun and shoots down many Americans that are running back up the