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The fire was blazing, while I was sitting in my favourite chair smelling the meal Martha was preparing for me and the rest of the family. “grandpa, what are you doing?’’ ‘‘Ha Ha, I’m just relaxing Harry, now go help out your grandma with diner, alright?’’ ‘‘Yes, grandpa’.’ Harry replied exhaustedly. Of course I wasn’t relaxing though, what I saw in the fire I kept from everyone I had ever loved. I saw misery, death, and destruction. whenever I looked away from the flames, the fire only attracted me more. I was but a mere fifteen years of age when shock took over the Country, The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. My dad told me it was nothing and that the problem would be over in a couple of days, but he was wrong. The war started in 1939. Luckily you did not have to go to war, it was completely voluntary, but every night I would pray for the poor souls who had enlisted to go to war. While my father was being mocked at work for not having enlisted, me and my mother were working at an old refinery in Thunder Bay. We would produce helmets, clothing made from rags and bullets. women all over the country were finding jobs because their were better wages so the economy greatly increased. By 1940 two of my friends had enlisted for war, never to be heard from again.
Approximate Word count = 894
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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