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Essays

Student essay: "Rain"

Excerpt: "The black hovering clouds indicated rain -- heavy rain. The day appeared like night, darker and darker it got."
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Student essay: "War"

Excerpt: "'December 7th, 1941, Japs attack Pearl Harbor' 'Surprise Attack in Pearl Harbor!' War! War!"
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Student essay: "Hauling Rocks"

Excerpt: "When I woke up in the morning and went to work I found out that we had to haul rocks to Block 3."
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Student essay

Excerpt: "One day when I came home from the movie with my sister our parents seemed worried as though something terrible had happened."
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Student essay: "What happened when Pearl Harbor was attacked"

Excerpt: "Blood! More blood! Was the frantic cry of the doctors when our horribly burned and mangled boys began to stream in the operating tables."
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Student essay: "War"

Excerpt: "War is a contest by force bteween two or more nations or states, carried on for any purpose -- a contest which is full of hatred had has an urge to kill the ones of the opposite side."
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Student essay

Excerpt: "Guns are roaring, bullets whizzing, men dying like rats, so that this world would be a decent place to live."
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Student essay: "Killed in Action"

Excerpt: "People only knew him as a dissipated boy whom no one would associate with, except his few degenerate friends."
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Student essay

Excerpt: "Were about to go over the top. Instruction are assed out to keep charging or die trying."
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Student essay

Excerpt: "'Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attacked by Japs' was the news that came from the commentators throughout the nation."
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