On the 25th of February, 1893 at the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota a baby called William Gardner was born at the time of 6 with 15 minutes in the early morning, which is how your story begins. Your family has been living in the United States in the zone of the North East for a long period since the early time of the 1800’s. You were the common typical boy whose eyes were round blue like the sea, blonde soft and straight hair, and a really light, delicate against the sun, white skin. You look just like your mother but you still have some aspects that make you look in some ways like your father. The time passed by, you were a very happy kid until one day your parents began to fight. That was how your family crisis started. Three years later after hearing your parents all the time yelling at each other, they separated and months later they got divorced. You felt so useless and went into depressive mood. You wanted to help mom and make yourself useful while the crisis was passing by and getting over.
On 1909 you were 16 years old, it had been a year since you only live with your mom, you got a project at school where they asked what were you planning to be when you grow up, then it’s when the idea of join the army popped out into your mind. Decided and determined for join the army, after years of feeling useless and ashamed of whom you are, at the age of 19 after graduate you joined the army. You were accepted for the U.S army when you turned 20, which was on the 1913.For over a year or maybe a little bit less you had to be training with your team in the army preparing for anything that could come, any trouble or war that could harm the united states, so the soldiers, who you are part of, would be ready to protect your people.
William Gardner, was working really hard to be a honored soldier, and to feel proud of himself without knowing that a year later, after his first year of preparing, he would have to go to World War I. Some days before going to war he was really nervous and acting like gone all the time around the other guys that shared room with him. He needed to be brave but at time he was scared and anxious to see if he would survive to the war, it was the first time he would sacrifice and risk his life this way, but he was feeling really proud of himself since he was being part of the U.S army always thinking: “If I die I will proudly die for my country”. And then couple of days before going to the action he wrote a letter to his lovely and now lonely mother to express her the way he was feeling and maybe to say good bye to her for the last time.
A lot of years later that World War I passed, as you survived to the war you decided to still be a soldier for the U.S army and still be honored for your country. World War II was coming and you knew it, sadly for your excitement on going to defend your people, well it was in vain because this war took place in Europe where United States didn’t belong like to fight this war, practically it wasn’t your business to get into this war otherwise if your team would of got involved you guys would of give Germany reasons to be in war with your country. The general O’Donnell really wanted to do something since you all agreed that you guys not only had to protect your country, but your neighbors and the ones who needed of you all, but it would of be a bad plan and strategy to just invade to try to liberate the others. So the president of the 1900’s decided to make conferences to could help the other countries and that way could have a plan and a right strategy that would defeat Germany, win the war, and liberate the countries such as Poland or at least the polish people who was being captured by Hitler.
You knew you and your whole team had to stay neutral for a while, until it was time to really get into the war and do something about it. You and all the members from the army would have a meeting at least once or twice a week after Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin’s meetings and agreements to could create a successful strategy and a plan that would really work against the allied countries who were making the war, and also to could do something about the poor polish people who was suffering in hands of Hitler. You felt really sorry for it but it wasn’t something that you or your partners could really do about it. You guys stood neutral for a couple of years until 1945 that is when the Allies and the American army had everything to could win this war.
Again you had the excitement but disillusion feeling, this time was less excitement, you were old already not that young and strong as you were in World War I, but you still wanted to fight and keep being on the U.S army because you felt really good to protect your country as the first time you fought in World War I. As you were old the general O’Donnell told you he shouldn’t let you participate in this, they had enough people but he needed somebody like you who was fighting more for excitement and love for the country that somebody who thinks it’s kind of forced to fight and risk their lives. For the health issues you could have during this period he told you to be with the red cross, receiving the polish people, if everything worked as planed you would help them out and again, you survived after this war once again American people didn’t react as happy as the Polish, and French people because with the help of the American army were you were, the war was over, but guiltiness and happiness at time was a feeling too because of the suicide that Hitler committed.
Your mom wasn’t here anymore to say congratulations again, neither the dad you never saw again after your 17 years old. But you had the pride of your wife who you met during World War I and the wonderful daughter she gave you. Now you realized that all the strength and the sacrifice of risk your life was worth it because you loved your country, the country were your two actual love live. War was the worst experience you and your team, specially the ones who sadly died, went through and that everybody hopes that this kinds of stories don’t happen ever again.
