Creative Writing: My First Vietnam War

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Hart asked me, interrupting my deep thoughts, “What are you doing Alice?”
Daydreaming with a great deal going through my mind, waiting for the information on my Army recruitment which will define my future. Being felt abandonment from my mother leaded me into this phase in life, secretly joining to be an army nurse, this will allow me to solve everything and forget about how she treated me and my friends, substantially Mitsy.
“Go away, Hart!” I groaned. It was better off without Hart knowing what I was planning.
Joining the war effort would be a new start in life. Instead of being the perfect daughter to my mother, alternatively, I could be saving people’s lives who are fighting for the country she despises. She was too fine for the streets of searing Broome, a beautiful woman who should never have left pefect London. Not even for her true love because …show more content…

I was going to be an Army nurse, but now, after hearing about my mother’s death, I question my decision. I don't feel an emptiness in me, that feeling you feel after you lose your mother. I didn’t feel any different, it just feels wrong, I feel no change. I am so confused. I should quit and not be an army nurse anymore. I was in desperate need of my Dad. I went to him with confusion within in me. He was still shocked by Mother’s death and it has been one whole week. I told Dad everything, all my emotions, the plan, just everything.
He told me with tears in his face, disappointed in his eyes that I was planning this without telling him, “Ida’s death also upset me, but you have to move on sweetheart.” Hart was even more shocked about my secret plan of being an Army nurse. “Training starts tomorrow,” I said, hoping they would understand the circumstance.
“Tomorrow?” Dad and Hart said in shock and happiness. I could tell that they were happy for me, but I wish I told them earlier. They understand my decision, that was a huge weight lifted off my