Personal Narrative: My First Vietnam War

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We've sat in the darkness for weeks. Surviving off nothing but rations we could find. Sealed from the rest of the world, we are the remaining of the blood bath we call war. Sitting in New York, believed dead from our own country. It's understandable no one makes it out alive from New York. World War III has pushed America out of New York and D. C the Axis has controlled the city for what a few months feels likes years. My team consisted of: Mario A. Jones, sharp shooter, does anything for team. Robert Bryant, fearless, the strongest person I know. Rodney McCranie, grenade expert, hard ass. Then there's me Mitch Dennis I'm the leader of my recon team. We were sent to New York to take out a general for the Axis, but then we were trapped behind …show more content…
The four of us were having to take drastic measures to survive. We leave we could all die, but if we stay we die of starvation. I decide to open the doors and a gust of wind hits my face and light blinds me for a few seconds. We walk out with guns raised to see nobody there. Walking out the rusty metal door to see the former blue sky covered by a mask of gray smoke. There wasn't anyone that we could see. I decided to split up and see if there was a radio to get out of the city. Mario and I walked to Times Square the most popular part of the city. Walking down the empty streets with nobody in the stores was eerie. Then was an indistinguishable sound we heisted but checked it out. The sound was behind a closed I slowly opened the door. I looked in the door to see nothing but a dog barking and wagging its tail happy to see someone. The dog just looked at us and began to follow us. Mario was a little uncomfortable with the dog it keeps licking his legs. We left the store to continue our search for the radio or a human being. The search went on hour after hour thru every street looking for a way radio or a living creature other than a homeless

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