Personal Narrative: My Legae

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Its is dark and I see a light from a far distance. Then I hear a gunshot and a sharp pain through my leg, but I feel a liquid and I know it’s has to be blood. My leg hurts so much I can hardly move but I hear voices getting closer by the second, so I move into the bushes near me. Then the voices stop and a flash of light went into the bush that was besides me so i shoot the to enemy foot soldiers. But suddenly one of the enemies radio went off but I couldn’t understand what he was saying because he was speaking some other language. I still can’t move because of my leg and my heavy weapons don’t help. But the my radio goes off and my commander says “you have to get out of there we have spotted a hole enemy squad heading in your direction,

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