The Rescue by Philip M

Once upon a time there lived a man named Arnold. He was wealthy and very hard working. He worked as an architect. He has built and designed many houses even his. The year was 2045 and in the middle of a war. This war had more casualties than the Civil War and World War 2. Arnold had a son named Jeff. He was 16 and had his permit. He was looking to enlist. Arnold thought he was crazy but Jeff didn’t care what his father thought. The only problem was there were strict laws against anyone under 18 enlisting. Jeff thought about a fake ID but they have a machine that you have to scan and it can detect a fake ID.

Two years later he still wanted to enlist and was counting down the days until he could. Two more days he kept telling himself. By this time the war had hit 100,000 casualties. The government knew they had to do something. And a week later they were going to have a draft. When Jeff heard about this he was incredibly happy. He waited out the week and ran down to the draft. He was picked. Jeff didn’t know what he was getting himself into, the worst war in history.

Jeff was sent to training camp and it was brutal. He drove himself insane trying to do all the push up and sit ups. But after a little while they felt easier to him. He wrote to his dad everyday. He told him about how everyone was so mean and how he wants to give up, but his father’s words of encouragement kept him going. He finally got through training and was being sent to war. He wrote this to his dad. Arnold, who was diagnosed with cancer and the doctors said he didn’t have long to live. Jeff had to go for six month so he hoped his father would hold out that long.

The next week Jeff was shipped out to Japan. His task was hard and would take the whole six months. He was on a search and rescue mission. His team was supposed to find another team who went in a while ago. Jeff and his team had a dangerous mission, even though the commanders told them it wasn’t, they had to get through Japans main command post, and it was heavily guarded. His team was made up of two snipers, and machine guns. For the next two month they will be trying to find out where Japan’s post is located.

After about two months of searching they finally found it. The Japanese kept moving their post to different places so no one could find it. Jeff and his team were so happy they found it they feasted on nearly half their food. The team decided that they should send a scouting team out to see how well the place was armed. Jeff heard some gunshots and they all came back. The team had lost 1 person, their best gunman, Alfred, who got shot straight through the head. But then they mentioned a wall being unguarded. The entire team then went to the wall, got over it and jumped down inside.

Now it was time for the hardest part of the journey, they had to rescue another team who had been caught and had valuable information on them. Jeff spotted a palace in the center of the city. They managed to slip inside and caught a glimpse of the team they had to rescue. Soon as Jeff and his team found the other one, guards came walking around the corner. Guns were fired and the guards were dead. The team then took the bars off the jail cell and searched to find some guns. With all the new people they could walk right out the front door. But they didn’t so no one would know they were there. They went the same way out of the town. Once they got to the wall Japanese soldiers were standing there. Jeff, the team’s captain, decided that they should just shoot all of them. After doing that they climbed the wall with no problems. They called a helicopter to pick them up, and they all went home.

Jeff father died one day after he got home. Jeff and his team received a medal of honor. The war ended a few months after that because a US assassin killed the emperor. Years later he educated people on the war telling them about how it started and how it ended. The assassin was actually one of Jeff’s friends during their journey. Jeff is now 52 and still teaching kids about World War 3.