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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.