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World War One: A Personal Narrative

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It was 1916 when I received a call that’ll change my entire life. I was going to get deployed to Europe. I couldn 't find the precise words to tell my wife Edna and my five year old son Joseph that it’s my turn to help out my fellow battle buddies in this war. My family is most precious people I have in this world I’d utterly give my life away for them. I was due to head out to Europe in two weeks.

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