Red Sands

The Attack

I was one day at church preaching about the Lords sacrifice, then I heard a explosion out in the distance, as many people ran out, a US soldier was running towards me and ram into my stomach, "What's wrong?" I asked him, then he looked at me and said, "Your people destroyed Pearl Harbor!" He said it with rage, I wanted to tell him that I am a teacher of God and I shouldn't get that disrespect, but I didn't want to get into a fist fight and ruin my favorite uniform (I wore the stereotypical black robes with a white square in the middle), also, I was a fancy man, I had shiny black hair with beautiful blue eyes, I was tall, about 6"1, but I never really thought that I would be drafted, but I was wrong, two days later when my son was at school, my wife and I were watching tv, then I got a knock at the door, men dressed in military uniform came to my house and said to me, "Mr. Jing, a soldier died today at Wake Island and we lost more than intended to, we need you in the military, we know that you already did training so you won't go to boot camp." My wife was crying on the couch, I know that's she's scared, fearing that I probably won't come back, but there was a question that was unanswered who was more scared, me or her, I thought about it so much that I started to cry as well, "I know this is hard, but we'll take care of her, we promise." One of the soldiers said to me as we walked to the Humvee to take me to the flying fortress to take me to Guadalcanal to fight my own kind at this battle of destruction, thus is scary, I hope this will end soon.