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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Cameron Curtiss

An Ode to Omaha Beach

An Ode to Omaha Beach

On June 6th 1944

We hit the beach

And they dropped the door

We poured out like animals

We were getting shot and dying

Soldiers were getting shot

Dying in the boats

We bled from our throats

And that is not all she wrote

Soldiers dived into the water

Taking off their equipment

And their gear

Having no fear

They swam to the beach

All wet and soaked

Trying to take cover

As the Germans were firing

Some men lay on the sand

With red all over their hand

Trying to fix a man

Soldiers ran and ran trying not to get shot

Explosions everywhere

On the ground

Some got caught

In the explosions

They went flying up and then down

Onto the ground

Maybe dead or alive

The solders tried

To survive

There was fence

That was blocking our way

To claim victory for that day

We took it down

With dynamite

And went over

Ready to fight

We took out the main gunner

Stuck in the Mud

Stuck in the Mud

By Cameron Curtiss
Milton high School, Grade 9

Stuck in the Mud!
As soon as I got my hunting license me and my brother were always out squirrel hunting, partridge hunting and deer hunting. But what we really love is to duck hunt. Robin Comings is the man who showed us the techniques and spots of the trade. When my brother and I finally could afford our own decoys, calls, guns and waders we went out around our house, which has a nice selection of ponds.

The Jericho's House

After going into Burlington for lunch and a shopping trip the Jericho family returned home. They would return home to something big and blood ridden in their basement, something that could make you deaf, something with long brown hair and ominous eyes that could send shivers down your spine.
As usual the Jericho family entered their driveway singing “She’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes.” As Mr. Jericho turned the steering wheel of the station wagon, the car squeaked and bounced up and down as they entered the drive way very slowly. When the engine was shut down the family all sang the last bit of the song, laughed a bit and then brought all their bags of clothes inside.
“Hey Billy go let the dog outside so he can go to the bathroom.”

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