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Personal Narrative: Mr. Crane

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I am a freshman in highschool and I have had many good teachers, but none were as good as Mr. Crane. Mr. Crane was my sixth period U.S. History teacher in eighth grade. Mr. Crane had been teaching for many many years before I got to class and I was proud to say that I was the last class to have him. He served in the Vietnam War and was injured losing three fingers on each hand and had multiple gunshot wounds, but he didn’t let that stop his career. He was a great teacher and was like no other I had ever had before.

Mr. Crane was not your average teacher. He made you put in the time and effort to get the grade you wanted in his class; nothing was just handed to us unlike other classes. Everyday in class we took pages of notes. Everything Mr.

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