Book Review

              My book is The Stand by Stephen King. It stars out at a military base with a young man trying to evacuate his family from a potential calamity. The man and his family escape from the base and were headed towards a local town where they stopped at a gas station. The man unknowingly contracted a extremely versitile and deadly virus. An officer comes to a call of a overturned car at a gas station posted a couple miles on the outskirts of San Diego. The officer arrives to find a woman and her child dead, with green foam at their mouths. He investigates the gas station to find the young man dying of superflu. The officer returns to the station and orders an investigation. The officer unknowing sealed the fate of billions of people. The flu spread from man to man, woman to woman, child to child sparing but only a select few. Throughout the countries, chaos and turmiol erupted. Establishments crumbled, dictatorships sprung. America has fallen. Now the prince of darkness has unleashed his son upon the Earth to decieve the remaining inhabitants. He gathers his followers with false testimony and lies of hope and order. He is known to all as the dark man, and he has set forth to crush the few souls who stand in the name of God. This is Revelation.

Henry/Forrest

            They both ran and they both fought for their country (or union). Although, their purpose of running was not quite the same. Henry was fleeing from his fear of death, from his fear of battle. Forrest was ordered to run to live and fight another day. Forrest ran for the good of his country. Henry fled with his tail between his legs, though in his mind, he was running out of self-preservation and was actually helping his cause. Henry was not the heroe in this case. Henry ran without regard for his fellow men, and watched as they tripped and fell right beside him. Forrest risked everything to save his friend and his comrades. Forrest was a heroe, Henry fell short of that title.

Wounded Warriors Project

              This wonderful project reaches out to the injured vets across the country who struggle waking up each day knowing that life will never be the same. Heroes who risked everything to protect the flag. They lost their arms, legs and their peace of mind. Men and women who paid the price of freedom, those who saved innocents from the terrors of war. Those heroes should not go on without proper gratitude and respect. The Wounded Warriors Project ensures that these brave souls see the proper care and love that any american heroe rightly deserves.

9/12

            September 12, 2001, American families around the country awoke to see the sun rise. Their homes still stood. Their hearts still beating. They awoke to see that everything was going to be alright. Their children still laughed and played. This assured many worried families that this was not the end. Just merely the beginning of the rebuilding period. Terrorism could not reach them in their safe homes. They realized that the sun was going to rise and set, just like every day that preceeded the 11th and every day before that. America was still standing.