Princess Mia was sitting in her pajamas watching the news on TV in her home in Genovia. As Mia almost fell asleep in her chair, she was rudely jolted awake by a knock on her room. Mia almost forgot, It was Genovia's independence day.

"Princess Mia, the parade is almost ready." Said the queen.

"Oh shoot I almost forgot." Mia jumped up and ran to get her suit on for the parade.

She ran down the hall in her high heals almost tripping multiple times. Mia hopped on one leg to fix her shoe as she came up next to the queen.

"Oh my darling you made it and just in time too, The military is about to march."

Mia loved seeing the blue angels and the memorial day parades back at home in San Francisco with her father. She hopped it would be as equally as epic as the american military. Sadly however, it wasn't even close. The military wasn't marching in orderly fashion, their uniforms are wrinkled, there were hardly any vehicles and the lines were very very crooked. Mia looked away in embarrassment.

"Oh my god is this what our military is like?" asked mia in complete shock.

"This is outrageous. The marches in America are nothing like this. We need to reform the army grandma"

"you're right, I'll get europe's best military generals on the phone. But in the meantime, you must continue viewing the parade."

Mia nodded and went back on the balcony to finish viewing the parade. The Royal guard looked at Mia in disappointment. Mia looked back with shame as well. After 3 hours the parade was finally over.

"Oh my goodness, so this is why we aren't allowed to participate in victory parades"

Hours later after the parade, Mia walked back inside to find the Queen.

"Mia, I've called all of our allies and NATOs generals but they all seem busy with the war in Iraq. We're just going to have to have general Greene attempt to deal with it."

"Actually Grandma, I have a friend in America who went to west point and the military academy in virginia. Maybe he can help."

"Is he a good general?" Asked the queen.

"I was watching the news, they say he's comparable to Napoleon Bonaparte and generals Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses Grant."

"Then you must call him immediately. Chop chop no delay" The queen ordered as she walked away.

Mia walked to her room and picked up the phone to call her old friend...

Mathew J Sherman