Chapter+16

A Welcoming Back Home As George Bush gives thanks to all the troops that recently got home from Iraq, some couldn’t see, and others couldn’t hear. Families were proud of their loved for fighting in the war. They didn’t respect the fact that Bush has no right to stand up there and thank them for fighting for our nation. Why does he care his body is in tact. All the troops that survived in the war came back with something wrong. Either they were deaf, blind, or with no arm or leg. After the ceremony some troops were able to walk away but for the others like Panchita, weren’t so lucky. Panchita wasn’t able to do anything on her own. Before she went to war she invested in a Home, now she has to sell her house and move back with her parents. She wasn’t able to go out by her self, so when her mom would go grocery shopping she wanted to go. When they got to the market all she could hear was a bunch of little kids pointing and laughing at her. She was able to deal with it until one finally said out loud, “Eeewww, mom what’s wrong with her?” On the way out she saw a newspaper stand and saw the picture of George Bush, and next to it read a headline that said “false hopes, No weapons where found or ever will be”. So many thoughts rushed through her head, all the soldiers that died in the war for no reason, all the soldiers that are disabled. What about her, she was doing great before she left for war, and she saw so many die in front of her. She was apart of an explosion and now she has no legs, and one arm is half gone. She needs a person to do things for her, that wasn’t the life that she wanted. There was no need to fight this war, and still there was no end to it any time soon. She realized that nothing was going to be the same anymore. She got home and went to her dad’s drawer, and she got her dad’s gun out; all her worries that she had were gone. She wasn’t a burden to her parents anymore. -Virginia Guerrero