Courage : A Short Story

It was late one day in June, and the sky was as blue and clear as sparkling wine. I sat back in my hammock reading the book Unbroken enjoying myself, and my uncle came up and asked me if I wanted to play poker with him, 5$ buy in. I jumped at the idea finished my page and went inside the house. Poker is a pretty big thing in my family and I’ve grown up playing and my uncle was one of the best, so spending time with him playing poker is always one of my favorite things to do. We proceed to set up the table, “Texas Holdem“ he says, Jacks to open”. Nothing weird, so we get the game going and the pots getting pretty big when all of the sudden he drops his cards. I stare the cards dead in the eye and see that i'm going to surpass him! He looks

Courage & Calling by Gordon T. Smith is a book about embracing one’s God-given potential. He talks about responsibilities and obligations as Christians, and how they are ultimately tied back to God. Smith also focuses on the differences between occupation and vocations, and how we are to navigate through different transitions in one’s life, and how all is linked back to being proper stewards.

Courage tells us a lot of things and makes us think because without courage we shouldn’t live and walk around others with our full emotions and not been not bad and nice but normal “courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is what it takes to sit down and listen” (winston churchill). And I think it is the best behavior that a human can have in his life. And there is more good things that we write or learn.

Winston Churchill’s famous words, “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision,” are very important to me when we are thinking about courage. I believe that courage is important trait to obtain because not having courage wouldn’t let us do many of the things we have accomplished. Sometimes showing courage means doing something we wouldn’t normally do, and it also represents itself in doing something against our morals. In the book Jasper Jones, Charlie is a character that stands out to me because he shows a lot of courage throughout book after Laura’s death.

     Undaunted Courage is a very detailed account of what Ambrose considers the most important expedition in American history, Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the west. Ambrose attempts to project Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a country that stretches from sea to shining sea, of an open road to the west, of an “Empire of Liberty”. Ambrose repeatedly shows how important the expedition was to the United States and especially to Thomas Jefferson by giving examples of the powers given to Lewis by Jefferson in order to complete the expedition. Lewis is given a letter of credit signed by

In the chapter “Notes”, Tim O’Brien explains where his inspiration for the previous chapter, “Speaking of Courage”, comes from. He received a letter from his old friend Norman Bowker talking about how he lacks purpose in life after the war, how nothing seems real or worthwhile to him anymore. He explains how he read O’Brien’s other book and asks him to write a chapter about a war veteran in his own situation. Eventually, O’Brien writes the chapter to fit into his current narrative. He sends the published chapter to Norman and he says that it’s alright, but it’s missing key points; it’s missing the whole point. Later on, Norman hangs himself and O’Brien rewrites the chapter the way it was meant to be and puts it into his new book, The Things They Carried.

I ran down the mountain as quickly as I could. It was more of a controlled fall down the mountain. I hopped on a Blackhawk and told the crew chief to take me to BAF. The pilot CW3 Rob Lyon was a great guy who often bent over backwards to take care of the Pathfinders; we tried hard to return the favor. We arrived to the rotary wing PAX terminal at BAF at about 1800 at night. Nothing was there for us. I ran into the PAX shed fresh off of the mountain. Everyone was staring at me like I was a caveman. I had a loaded weapon and thermite grenades exposed on my kit. I guess a lot of people there forget a war is going on. I called the only person I knew to call. Our BDE S4 NCOIC. We received four box trucks full of all sorts of stuff. Sleeping bags, beanies and about 3000 body bags. Mortuary affairs got told there was a MASCAL and came in force with their own truck and about five soldiers. I task organized my group of helpers including some Air Force truck drivers and the mortuary affairs team into building speed balls with the sleeping bags, water, batteries, and chow. Oh they also brought a shipping container and more cell phone

Land of the free, Home of the brave, the last two lines of our National Anthem. Land of the free, we are free because of the soldiers who did not only fight in the Revolutionary War, but the War of 1812, known by many as the 2nd war for independence. We are free because of that war. Home of the brave, the United States is the home of the brave, not Great Britain. Kids all over the country need to know every part of how our country came to be today. Publishers want to take out the War of 1812 from our textbooks, just to save a few pennies. They believe the war is not as important as others, and it had nothing to do with the growth and development of our country. Apparently they need to read the chapter about the War of 1812 in our textbook.

This story is about a family that live in amsterdam during the Holocaust inside of a secret annex. The date of the first part of the story is July 6, 1942. By the end of the story there are a total of 8 people in the secret annex there is Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Anne, Mr. Van Daan

I couldn’t really feel my arms due to all the gun handling and shootings. We retired to sleep while the other batch took over at the war front. Sean and his friends entertained us with stories from their past war experiences before we all fell asleep. The early morning whistling from our troop commander woke us up from our slumber. Sean and I quickly rinsed our face as we headed out with the others to receive the instruction for the day. That day, we were to attack the hideouts of the terrorist in the main city. Sean and I were assigned to the same team which at least made me happy. We boarded the bus that was to take us to the town as we waved goodbye to the other troop

“Good look out there Bill!” yelled my friend Randall. I could hardly hear him over the roar of my plane engine taking off. I gave him the thumbs up and closed my cockpit of my C-117 Skytrain. I knew that what I was doing was one of the most dangerous things to do in the US military. My plane got even louder and started taxing down the runway while other people were directing me. I felt the rush of the plane as he started taking off.

Klay did not only show believable and moral moments in his book. He also showed a sense of generalization. War has a different meaning to everyone, but the results of war are deaths, injuries and trauma for the majority. “The road kept turning under our wheels, and my eyes kept scanning automatically for anything out of place, signs of digging or suspicious piles of trash. It doesn’t stop. Tomorrow we would do this again. Maybe get blown up, or get injured, or die, or kill somebody. We couldn’t know” (Klay 51). Soldiers have a specific routine everyday which is always look out for members of the squad, kill the enemy before the enemy kills you, think on your feet once you’re in the battlefield. Soldiers are always thinking all the time of

teven and I was up in the trees and we ambushed them luck was driving the technical and cole was on the 50. cal teven and I was got cold out and luck drove off and it started to get to morning and we started to head back to base when we got back luck had made a trap and teven got out. a black hawk came and dropped some ammo, artillery, and an airsoft seal team it was just me that had 3 lives left and the seal team and luke that had 2 life left and his seal team. I set up my base and my seal team was set up too. then out on the horizon there was luke with his convoy with the technical he called in his artillery and killed half of my seal team he was coming down the hill in his convoy and we shot at him and he shot at us. we were in war for about a half an hour and when he got closer I used my artillery on my pushion and

It was something everyone needed. But when you realised you were lacking it? That's where alcohol came in.

I went out of a the drill through the escape pod. I don't even know what happened but I was shot all the way to the core. I was burning up everything was falling there was these weird snakes I was fighting and fighting but I couldn't get through all i had my arm bit off this was the end but my mission was a success.