Rodrigo 
Valdez 
11/4/04
English 9
Mr. Van
 A Soldier's Story!

	Two twins named Anthony Farley and Adam Farley graduated High school six months ago and didn’t plan on going to college yet. But their mom and dad encouraged them to do something with their lives. These two young men are from Miami Florida. Anthony and Adam talked about what to do with their lives. They both came to a conclusion to sign up for the army. There parents thought it was a great idea. They went to www.usarmy.com and received a free tape about what the army is like. This video came with two sign up sheets. They both signed up. Just about 2 months after they receive an acceptance letter to go to training in Houston Texas. The training was held in the hot weather of Texas at Camp Train. These two men were in great shape and qualified for the U.S. army not only for war but to represent our nation but the people of our nation. 
	They informed us to come back in two weeks and to be ready to leave. Anthony and Adam went back to Miami and they told friends and family that they were going to go to Iraq. They were going to be missed by everyone but they agreed it was the best thing to do at this time in their life.
	  On July 13 they were back at camp train in Houston. Mom and dad came to watch their two only sons go and make them and their country proud. Anthony and Adam were sent to Duhok Iraq. They arrive pretty late and they were told to get and good night sleep because they were going to get it the next day. Anthony fell asleep right away but Anthony just rolled over and could not sleep. They were up five o clock the next morning the first thing they did was went for a quick jog. They came back and showered and had breakfast. After breakfast they were ready to walk 1 mile into the dessert to reach the next village. Adam was tired and nervous but Anthony said there's nothing to worry about as long as we watch each other’s backs. After that long walk there was some trucks and some tanks waiting for us to take us to Baghdad. There were about 100 soldiers with us at the time. We arrived at Baghdad and there were reports of a suspicious man at the central hospital. Just about 50 soldiers checked that report out the other half went around Baghdad protecting and preventing trouble. We did run into some roadblocks of angry Iraqis. We tried to react in the most peaceful way we could but they forced us to use firepower after they shot at us. 
	Anthony was sent to the hospital and Adam was around town. At the hospital 2 Iraqi men shot at the American soldiers. Anthony was shot in his left arm. Adam not knowing just did his mission that he was told. It was late at night and they went back to Duhok. A military doctor wrapped up Anthony. When Adam saw this he was terrified by what had happen to his brother. Anthony got the choice of going home or staying he decided to stay and recover from his injury. Each night there was a prayer service for all of the injured soldiers they would read a list of those that died at battle and a list of those injured. 
	The next morning they both got on a helicopter to travel to Mosul Iraq. There was word that they need to hard working men and that happened to be us two. We had left Duhok like about at 8:30 that morning. Mosul was pretty far away. We heard gun fire about halfway their a couple missile's hit us. The pilot lost control and down we went slowly. Until they hit the ground it was a really depressing. The hardest part was telling their family. This is how the Anthony and Adams dream of being a U.S. soldiers went down in less that a month in Iraq.