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Life of War
Joszef Schankey
Interview
March 17, 2009
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in a war, killing all around you with no mercy almost like hell on earth? Well I have some story’s from someone who experienced if first hand. The man is my grandfather Roger Luckjohn.
The story that sticks out in my head the most is his run in with a sneaky mine. His platoon was traveling through the jungle on a scouting mission. On the way they were traveling around many mines. Well one of the young platoon members wasn’t paying the best of attention and had stepped on a mine and didn’t know it. So when he stepped of the mine it exploded and many small little balls erupted out of it killing everyone in the platoon all except for my grandfather. They all lay there Roger passed out from the concussion. When he woke up the enemy was all around him. He pretended that he was dead. They took all the platoons guns ammo and clothes. After all this they pilled the bodies and left. When they left my grandfather got out of the pile checked his knee and decided that he was able to walk. He then hiked back to bas naked and wounded.
The second most evil story is the one about his monkey. When he first arrived he was mostly at the base doing small missions real close to what they called “home”. On one of those missions he was doing a routine check up on the snipers around the base and found a baby monkey lying on the path. He picked it up finished his check up. He raised that monkey for a couple of years. And he was like the pet of the whole base. He had it trained to help him. It would deliver messages across the base for him to many different people. He would take it where ever he went except on some serious missions. One morning they were sitting outside because it was a nice day. He was doing a little paper work when he heard a real high pitched whistle. It startled him and he immediately looked back, but saw nothing. When he turned around the monkey was gone. He called for him but he never came. When Roger got up to look for him he found him lying dead on the other side of the desk. Then he faintly heard laughing. But there was no one there that was visible. The men killed the monkey just to toy with the base. That’s why it’s such a bad occurrence.
The final story is about his “death crawls”. Every time they would capture an enemy base they would have to check the tunnels that were just like elongated crawl spaces. But they would be filled with all their supplies. So when you would crawl through there you would have to be careful otherwise you would die. On the ceiling of the tunnel there would be hundreds of snakes and scorpions. So when you would go through u have to be very careful and look for the trip wire. If the trip wire were to be hit all the snakes and scorpions would pour on you and there is nothing that can be done to save you. Luckily on the “death crawls” my grandfather did he never tripped the wire. That’s the third and final reason that war is just like hell.
That is the life of a man at war. So my grandfather advises everyone to stay away from war. It can be the worst thing everyone experiences.

HoLeS bOoK rEvIeW

Holes
Joszef Schankey
March 4, 2009
Book Review
This book is one of the greatest children’s books. Holes tells the story of a young man named Stanley Yelnats (his last name is his first name spelled backward) who is unlucky, overweight, and hopeless. He gets all of his bad traits from his “no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.” The blame is on him because he was in a pact with a witch and when he didn’t come through with his end of the deal he got a curse put on him.
To go on with the story when he was walking home from school a pair of shoes fell on him. When he got up and looked at them he realized he was in trouble. The shoes were from a famous baseball players named “Sweet Feet”. When the cops chased him down and caught him he had a court date set up for theft. When he was in court getting his sentence the judge gave him a choice. He said “you can go to jail or attend camp green lake”. The thing he didn’t know about the camp is there is no lake. And it is a correctional facility that makes you dig holes to learn to not break the law.
After being there for a while he made a good friend named Zero. He was called Zero because he was said to be stupid and couldn’t talk. But come to find out he was actually a smart young man just needed some steering in the right direction. So when Stanley got him to talk everyone was shocked. One day when Stanley and Zero were digging there holes they got in a fight. Zero hit father with a shovel and ran away. But there was nowhere to go. Stanley was devastated at the thought of Zero dying. So when Mr. Sir was giving them water he stole his truck and tried to bring Zero some water. But on his way out there he crashed into a hole.
On his adventure out there he ran into Zero sleeping under a old boat. There were a bunch of canned peaches there that kept him alive. When they ate the last one they kept walking toward the mountain “Gods Thumb”. And the rest is yours to find out when you read the book.
I did not run into any problems with the book. They addressed everything keeping the book very interesting. That is why I recommend this book to people of every age. It is a good book with good action and drama.