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.
###
Comments
Post a Comment