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THE HERO’S STANCE AT ANZIO

Blog Post 8 of 11

“Rat-a-tat-tat” the German machine guns blasted, their bullets plucking the barren dirt all around him.  Intrepidly, he reached his first quest - the enemy's nest.  He was outnumbered by six against his lone soul, odds clearly not in his favor.  Yet he bravely handled his charge and boldly hurled four grenades into their trench.  With a loud deafening explosion, he heard the sound of success as his ammo hit their mark.  When the smoke cleared, two enemy soldiers lay dead, the other four captured and marched back to his unit’s foxhole.  

He was now out of ammunition having used the last four of his Army issued grenades.  Spotting a cache of the enemy’s grenades, a German “potato masher,” he quickly seized this horde and continued on his valiant mission.  Laden with the weight of ammunition and his rifle, he continued across the forsaken field, wiggling his body forward, crawling, crawling driven by the importance of his quest. 

As he neared his goal, the enemy fired upon him, “tzing, tzing” the bullets sounded as they hit the dirt all around him.  Undaunted, he crawled another 60 yards toward them until he reached 30 yards outside of this second enemy nest.  Here he engaged in a deadly exchange of grenades with the enemy.  Each time he stood to throw his confiscated weaponry, the enemy lashed back at him with their machine gun bursts.  Amazingly the enemy was unsuccessful in stopping him from his undertaking.  Although he had been outnumbered by ten to one, the deadly duel ended with five of the German soldiers surrendering to him, the other five lay dead while he had miraculously remained unscathed.

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