Jim

Michael Hogan
Mrs. Townshend
2nd Period
11-28-01
Jim
World War two was a savage war... I was only twelve when it started. My older brother and my father both went off to fight for America. After Pearl Harbor, Americans were starving for revenge and hoped for a short, victorious end to the war.
When the war started and Dad and Uther left to fight, it was just me; my younger sister, Carol, who was eight; baby Jane; and Mama. Mama went to work for a factory in the town, so it was my responsibility to make sure that we all got to school and back safely. Mama was normally home around five, so I had free time after that. Usually, even on the busiest of days, I got my homework done and went out to play with my best friend, Ralph.
Ralph was an only child. His father had went off to war, and his mother worked at the factory with mine. He lived two houses up the street on the opposite side of the road. We had already decided that when we turned seventeen we were ...