Personal Narrative: The War By Czarnecki Historical Fiction

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The War Czarnecki Historical Fiction

Here I was standing in my office about to give orders to Sergeant Dixon. While drinking my morning coffee. “Ah” as I slurped silently. I than whispered into the microphone quietly “Sergeant Dixon please report to Colonel Todd’s office at 0800 please”. I lived on an army base in Vietnam fighting the war, hoping to be sent back home soon. Moments later Dixon arrived in my office, he was told by me he needed to get all of his men to work on the broken vehicle that stopped working last week.
He replied “Ok we’ll get right on that” in an excited way. I later got up, looked around the base to make sure everything was running smoothly, then Captain Rodgers sprinted up to me and yelled “Colonel, there's

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