Personal Narrative: Civil Defense

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Bang! Crack! Screech! Pop! These are the sounds that interrupted me from playing with my cousin. My mind raced to see what exactly had happened. I run out of the house and to the courtyard. My cousins want me to come back in, they said zombies were walking the streets and that the government sent troops to kill them. I denied it, so I ran out to the street to see what happened. My heart pounded and my stomach grew anxious as the aroma of bacon and engine oil filled the air. As I grew closer to the scene, men shed blood from their eyes alike the woman. As I walked closer and cut through the crowd, a cold and simple wind had ripped the thoughts out of my head. It was a grieving mother over her son's body. His body fresh and mutilated from the crash. Shattered ribs and guts exposed. His head had exploded and his …show more content…

A streak of blackened blood led straight to his intact brain, still lying in the ditch, wet and drenched in oil. My mind went blank and instead of terrified, it grew in curiosity. This was the day that I came to a realization. My whole view of life had changed. I saw how fragile the human body is and how easily a person’s consciousness can be wisped away. I was granted the position of sergeant in the Civil Defense, a subdivision of the Dominican military. I have seen macabre things before, a man nearly stabbed to death, another beaten senseless, but no event came close to the intensity of this one. The coroner had arrived from the city. I was asked to assist him in the disposal of Popeye’s body. I was picked because I wasn’t afraid of the body. I was looked down upon, my family could not understand how a 14 year old boy

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