A Veteran's Story

Essay by: Chase Bachleitner

Veteran narrative

Roseau Community School

Mrs. Olsen

Have you ever been forced to leave everything you know behind? Like genuinely, your house, your buddies, your town, your school, everything you know and now all of the sudden you have to move to a whole new place. A place you've never seen, only heard of. A place you've heard about in the papers and in that place all you hear is deaths. Well, that is exactly what it was like for the young men being drafted into the Vietnamese war. Don Bachleitner was one of these young men and he faced hardship and struggles when...