Personal Narrative-Ben And I

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Ben and I It all started off with us being in Warsaw, Poland 1946. That was where we had trained to get prepared for war against the Nazis. I met Ben by partnering up with him from a unit. I still remember the experiences that I went through with Ben and how we both saved each other lives once in the woods.
We were in a unit, about to be sent off to take out the Nazis. I looked around and all I saw were soldiers terrified, not knowing what they are about to go through, except one. He wasn’t far away from where I was, but he looked different among the other terrified soldiers, because of the expression he had on his face. He looked calm, brave, and as if he knows what he is about to go through. I looked at his nametag and his name was Ben Kamm.
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My commander had told me that I would be going to the woods with a partner. I didn’t know who to choose so my commander had chosen for me and I got stuck with Ben Kamm. I went to Ben and we introduced ourselves to each other. Our commander had told us the plan once we got into the woods in order to take down the Nazis by surprise, but I was thinking of another one in my head.
Once we splitted up from the other teammates and the other unit Ben and I started to talk about a different strategy we had in our mind. “Okay here’s the pla-...,” I announced. “Why don’t we just climb up a tree to take out the Nazi soldiers by surprise?” interrupted Ben. “You sure that plan will work?” I argued. “Yea, it will definitely work,” continued Ben. “What if I fall of by accident?” I pointed out. “Well if you do fall off, just use a code word,” joked Ben. “Fine,” I mumbled, “the code word will be ‘flying

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