Personal Narrative Essay: The Vietnam War

Initiation:

Trials: We passed the diamond gates of Elysium to pass a terrible wasteland on either side of the path we were walking on. On the right I saw angry souls battering the walls of Elysium and on the left I saw the path I came on with a giant three headed dog in the distance. “Why don’t we ask the dog to help us?” I asked the soldier next to me who was wearing samurai armor.
“Because he would think we were attacking him,” He replied, to my surprise, in perfect english.
“Okay, so are we going to attack the army next to us?”
“We must go to a break in the path or Hades will be summoned.”
“Is that bad?”
“Yes, Hades would punish us if he found out we have not solved this problem yet. Whenever we extinguish one rebellion another one springs

We marched into a cave that acted as its entrance. We marched down and down in a spiral until suddenly the person in front of me disappear and all I heard were his screams going down and down until they stopped all together. I tried to stop but my body was compelled by the Fury’s words so I stapped off the cliff that led into Tartarus. I fell screaming down until I felt like I had hit scalding hot water that felt like it was slowly burning the flesh off of me. I screamed as I flailed out of the water to see a wasteland that had monsters of all sorts of shapes and sizes crawling across its terrain. I turned around and watched hopelessly as my companions were ether swept away by the current or crawling onto the shore twitching and spasming in various states of pain. When those who were left finally recovered from the river's water I started to find myself drawn towards a milky white river that seemed somehow comforting. I turned around to see everyone following me to see what would happen. I stepped onto the river as Agamemnon exclaimed “Don’t!” When he saw me somehow standing on the water he, and everyone else, was flabbergasted. They all stood there staring at we in shock and surprise. “How are you doing that?” The samurai I was next to earlier