ASIN: B077BBR7SD
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 243
Mom and Dad didn’t like it when I came home late. So, I decided to walk alone down the yellow dirt road from school with an art book and a report card in hand. The clouds danced above me and around the sun. If I had brought my color crayons I would have stopped to draw the sky. Leaves shook from their branches. The trees quivered. Birds cawed in the distance. I gasped. The ground beneath me vibrated. Roaring winds picked me off my feet. The papers in my arms flapped in the air … BOOM. An explosion reverberated through the town. My head bumped against the road as I fell unconscious.I coughed dust. A smoky cloud of debris lingered over me. I tried to run my hand over my face, but it didn’t move. I looked down. A soldier lay on top of me. Something wet dripped onto my side. I pulled my other hand free. It was red.“When a soldier fell dead on six-year old Mary in 1965 ...
