WOW!
Last night I had thee BEST dream ever! Well... in the movie category that is!
Everyone has dreams whether they remember them or not. But last night, I had a dream that was one of a kind! Picture watching a movie that you have never seen (so that you are pretty interested because you've never seen it before), only you are IN the movie and although you don't get to change or control what happens in the movie, you can control what YOU do in the movie!
Well this is exactly what happened to me last night.....
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I was running with a friend. Don't know his name but he was my friend. It was some sort of training camp session and the terrain we were running through was rough and outdoorsy just as if the trail were a trail normal people would hike on. We were ahead of everyone that was running and everyone now and then along the path, there were what reminded me of staff sergeants yelling and letting us know how far more the trail goes giving us the choice to either keep going where the end was far out of site, or stop, pack up, and go home. Although it was our choice, they gave it to us as if they were discouraging us from attempting to make it to the end.
My friend and I kept running and although the thought of quitting raced through our minds, that's pretty much all it did as we made the decision to keep on going no matter what these men along the trail said. We could make it. We were tough and we were far ahead of all the rest behind us.
Through rough terrain. Up the dirt trails. Down. Around the bend and alongside beautiful meadows sometimes. Trampling through small river banks and sweating hard, but alongside me? My friend and we were ahead of everyone one making us feel unstoppable!
We did it. The last test was over. We made it to the end and just as a dream disables you from remembering those fine, small details the end was a blur. But one thing I know. My friend and I made it and we were now part of some sort of special task force kinda like them Navy Seals. ....but better.
Months later, it was just another mission and although passing the test was still very vivid in my mind, we were now all experienced with many missions under our belts. That's right, there are 30 of us men and women. We are the best the U.S. military has. We have the highest skills and we are given the most dangerous missions. We were marching through a meadow of tall grass and overgrown weeds. It was some sort of valley as on both sides there were small mountains. It was a perfect ambush area to trap us. We knew it, but it was the only trail to take to reach our rendezvous point and we could only move through the valley as quick as we can. We're running at a fast pace and just ahead, a blind spot. The whole valley meadow bends around to the left but in our line of sight was a mountain we had to go around. We raced around the bend, a horrible mistake, for as we all got around the bend, there was an army of about a thousand men tanks and all. They were Russians...
Immediately, they start laying siege on us and just ahead is an old abandoned barn. Taking heavy fire from both men and tank, we took shelter in the barn and got into these trenches in the barn where we are in the barn, just below the ground, and if we look just over the lip of the trench and under the barn wall of wood, you could see the army out in the short distanced meadow. Everytime we popped our heads up, they fired at us. We were stuck, pinned down, and couldn't move.
Everytime some Russians tried to get near, we killed 'em. No one could get near us, but we couldn't take on their big army. Even the best can be outnumbered.
Hours went by and we were basically just laying there in those trenches! Every now and then Russians would try to sneak up on us only to be killed by the best the United States has to offer. The battle was at a standstill. We were in a barn and the Russian army was right outside. If we were to make any attempt to leave, there was no doubt we would all would perish; it didn't matter how good we were.
Suddently, like a flashlight cuts through darkness, a loud yell is heard coming from the Russian army and as I look up just over the lip of the trench, I saw a huge white flag being waved alongside a unarmed man who is walking toward us in the barn. We don't shoot letting him and his flag bearer in the barn. He is the General of the Russian army himself and he tells us that he will let us go IF we give up two of our men one of them being our captain. Who was the captain? Our captain was the same guy that I was running with at the beginning of my whole dream -my best friend.
A long pause of silence filled the room.
In shock of us all, our captain agreed and signed some sort of document and handed it over to the Russians. The Russians left for a while while the silence continued on for the obvious purpose of someone stepping forward to sacrifice themself for the rest of the group. One fellow soldier and friend stepped forward. All showing appreciation by patting him on the shoulder.
But I was still in disbelief. What about the captain? He's not just my captain, but my best friend!!!
The Russians returned, this time with 2 armed soldiers. It was execution style right in front of us. We watched as my best friend and fellow soldier stood side by side getting ready to be shot and killed from the back. Tears began running down my face and a few others started tearing up. I couldn't hold myself together.
I woke up from my dream and in reality I was crying! REAL tears were streaming down my face! I wiped my tears from my face and jumped right back in my dream.
All I heard were the gun shots. The visual perception was blacked out.
That night they died. A fellow soldier and friend of mine, as well as my captain and best friend. But they did not die in vain for the rest of us 28 walked away from the battlefield unharmed and free. We will never forget our captain and fellow friend and how they sacrificed their lives for us.
Never forget the fantedible 30.
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