Personal Narrative: A Day In Iraq

I woke up every morning in Iraq the same way. I would get up and I would get all my gear on. Today was different though, I woke up, and leaned over the side of my bed with a bad feeling in my stomach, I got up soon after. I laced up my boots, loaded my gun’s magazines, and then put my vest on. Then walked outside and the sun blinded me for a little bit. I later walked to where the Humvee was, it was going to take us on our route. When I got in the Humvee I saw one of my good buddies, Jaxon Teriten, and we high fived and said, “Let’s do what we normally do.” I told him about the feeling in my stomach and we didn’t think much of it. We went on our natural route and we were taking it slow because there was a lot of negative activity happening around there. We drove about a mile and a half out of the base, I looked out the window to see a man on …show more content…
Until I got a call from Jazon asking where T0aylor was and if she had drove to school yet. I told him that she left like 10 minutes ago, and was supposed to call me when she gets to school. That’s when he told me to get in my truck and go find her. I drove 10 minutes away and saw the lights of firetrucks, police cars, and ambulances. I saw Taylor’s car rolled over at the only intersection outside of town, but it wasn’t just her car. I had ran to go see if she was okay, but she was nowhere to be found. I started asking where she could be and nobody had found her yet. I had looked everywhere in her car, in the ditch and everywhere I could. I saw an ambulance speeding away, and I was afraid she was inside the back so I ran to my truck. I was afraid that she was inside of the ambulance. I followed the ambulance to the hospital, and I couldn’t see who was on the stretcher. I asked the driver who was in the back and he said a young girl. I asked more about what she looked like and it was only sounding increasingly like Taylor. I was terrified that she was