It's On!
June 6 2007: Hello. My name is Collins Van Gorden and I lived through D-day. This, is my story.
It was June 6, 1943 I joined the Army. Little did I know exactly a year from then I was going to have the saddest and deadliest day of my life. My best friends and I decided when we were very young the day we graduated from High School we would join the Army. It was all of our dreams to protect out country. And to have some importance in our lives.
After Liam, Devin, Brad, Jake and I graduated,we went downtown to sing up. W e all told our mothers the day before and most of them took it pretty well. Except Devin and Brad's mom of course. She always looked out for her boys and never wanted them too get hurt. My mom, Jakes mom, and Liam's mom took it fine and told us if we wanted to do this then we could. Boy we all didn't know what we were about to get into. Anyways, we marched down to the signups all big and tough and got ready for the big moment. The sergeant took us in one at a time. He took Brad first, then Devin, then Liam, and then Jake. Oh boy, I was last. The pressure was on.
"Alright, the sergeant said, your interested in the Army?" "Well you've come to the right place." He chuckled. But then grew serious quickly.
"How does he do that?" I thought.
"Well, he continued, just fill out this paperwork and get ready to get sent to boot camp in 24 hours."
"Well, I've never been too camp" I said. He smiled and I left the room.
On the Bus
"This is great, Brad said with excitement. I've been waiting for this my entire life!
I was expecting a comment like that from him. He always had a great attitude. nlike mine. I was really quiet and kept to myself a lot. Devin on the other hand, was good at everything and was only cocky sometimes. When I say good at everything I mean Everything! Liam and me were best friends. We had a lot of the same interests but he was a lot wilder than me. He was willing to take risks. And Jake, god rest his soul. He was a great guy. He was bigger, but he was very nice. He could always relate to me and was really strong too! Anyways, on with the story.
After Brad made that comment we all kind of stayed quiet. There was the occasional chitter-chatter but nothing much. We arrived at boot camp a while later and got off the bus.