Chapter+15

A Soldiers Story “The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons,” said by George W. Bush. Her family supported the President with every word he spoke, but when the word came that she was about to be sent over seas she got this worried mixed feeling. She was happy that she would be fighting for her country, but at the same time she was about to leave everything that she had worked for twenty seven years. Her mom and dad are here, her husband with her two year old daughter. Alex porter did not have much time to digest the whole thought, because shortly she got the call that she was leaving the next day. As she was saying by to her family, she did not want to leave, and all these thoughts rushed through her head. What about if she didn't make it home. When she got on the ship every one was happy that they were about to go to war and fight for the red, white and blue. What they did not realize that everything in Iraq was bloodthirsty, and destroying. When she got to Iraq she saw towns, left and right, it was all washed out. Right away they through everyone in to combat, Alex was one of the lucky ones that did not get thrown in to battle, but have been sent to operating a vehicle check point. Well she thought she was lucky, on your way over the sea they gave them rules about who to trust and to never stop driving or shooting, even if they are children. Alex was the one that drove the soldiers to the check point. She notice form far away that there was a small body standing in the middle of the path remembering, what the general told them about not stopping for no one, because the use little children for bate. She could not help it she thought of her own child standing in the middle of the road, how could she keep driving, how could she run over this innocent child. Alex stopped and got off the jeep, and tried to talk to her. The next thing they knew, their was an explosion going off. Alex and six of the other soldiers were trying to run of. They knew if they didn’t get a certain distance, their jeep was about to explode. “Where is everyone, Alex asked a soldier that was lying right in front of her. “Three of the men couldn’t get away fast enough, their, their, dead.” Alex knew she would deal with the whole death concept at some point in her time here, just not the second day. She could here the other two soldiers trying to shoot in every direction so they could to hit the “Iraqi’s”, their the ones that are supposed to be dead, right? That is what our president has led us to believe. In an instant she could here no more shooting all she herd was the jeep go up in flames. She tried to call out to them but she got no response. She tried to get up with the other soldier but her leg was turned in a 90 degree angle, she wasn’t even able to realize the pain because she worried about everyone else. All of a sudden she hears a helicopter over her head, they came to rescue all seven of them, but they were only going to leave with two. Although she knew that her leg was turned half way around, and it was all gushy, she knew that her leg was about to be prosthetic leg. In her mind all she could think about where the five men that are dead. If she wouldn’t have stopped, and if she would have listened to the generals and kept driving this would have not happened. Overall she couldn’t help it but to blame it on the one that sent them all to Iraq. The “great and honorable” president. It wasn’t right how they came to New York and had plains crash and burn the twin towers, killing 2,740 Americans. What gave us the right to go into their country to kill about 21,000 of their civilians, and about 1,592 Americans. They have called them terrorist for going to America and destroying, what is now ground zero. What is she supposed to call her self for invading Iraq and for no reason at all. Was it for these weapons that had no existence at all, or was it because U.S. likes to go to war and pretend that they are showing a person who is boss? They had no choice but to send her back home to the U.S., fighting in this war didn’t just get her a fake leg but the fact that she stops to see what the child was standing in the middle of the road, killed five of her soldiers. -Virginia Guerrero

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/05/AR2006110500770.html.