Free Write

The War rages on as I continue to defend my country. I exhaust myself and would do anything to save the people I love, but there are three people I especially love and they are my family. I have a wife and and two kids waiting for me back at home. I cannot remember when I talked to them last, maybe five months ago, but since that phone call, my three year old daughters voice has been a non stop record in my head. She said "Daddy, i fell and got a boo boo on my knee, but I know you must have a lot of boo boos and i wish i could kiss them and make you all better. I love you." Since that day, I can not stop thinking about my family, and today I thought I never would be able to see them again. Three of the guys in my division were sent to the place we called the rocky hill. We began to be attacked, and the two other guys told me to run ahead for my kids. That was the last time I saw or heard them because after I had rounded the mountain, I heard an excruciating explosion and a avalanche of rocks tumbled down the hill. They gave their lives for me and my family and I will never ever be able to thank them for their love and their gift of my life.