Stories tagged with "history"
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A Visit with History (Summer Vacation Challenge)

We hiked through Balls Bluff Virginia Battlefield, using sticks as fake guns. Crouching behind long since fallen and rotted …
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Nostalgia

Surprised, I shook my head. “Who’s he?”
The stringbean in the corner snorted. “What rock you been under?”
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History
Jana looked at the letter again. What on Earth was she going to do about this? She thought that Adam was long gone from her l…
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History?

“Great, well I’ll see you around and on Thursday outside the school? Sweet deal! Bye!” I said happily.
_I whipped around and…
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Hmm....What to do?
You drive me crazy. Better yet my feelings for you drive me crazy. I’ll just be sitting calmly in math and they’ll suddenly o…
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Little Boy

8/6/45
32,000 feet above Hiroshima, JapanFrom inside the Enola Gay, 509th Composite Group commander Colonel Paul Tibbets …
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Clyde Corrigan
April Joyce was compelling.
She compelled him to act.
No matter how irrationally.
He knew all the details except for one: ... -
Hemingway Never Ate Here

At eighty-five, Margaret was no longer young by any standard. The spirit was willing, but the body was sometimes troubled by …
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Journal of the Disheartened Hero [OTOC diary challenge]

November 22, 1944
Another train left today, headed across the border towards that Hell men created. I should be proud, happy…
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Removal

My suit collapsed from around me. I felt my insides contract and my heart race. I was completely unprotected. I didn’t even h…