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 Thomas Blaubach May 4+6, 2009 pg. 5 of Heroes Don't Run

As Word Wizard I picked the word internment " I had to tell somebody, and Davi was the one. He and I had talked about joining up for years now, ever since Pearl Harbor. Davi was in Manzannar, the //interment// camp way out on the other side of the Sierra Mountains". I think it means far out. It means interning camp to get into the war in this case. good ideas. Evan 

Thomas Blaubach May 6, 2009 pages 11-24

I am the super summarizer. In these pages Adam ends his train ride to Bakersfield, New York were he is "going" to stay with his grandpa who also served in a war and lost his arm doing so. But we all know from reading these pages that Adam wants to go to war. Since he fells guilty that his father and grandfather were in the war and hes not. So Adam wants to his grandfather to sign the papers that allows him to be able to go in the war. Unfortunely at first his grandfather just shook his head no. A couple days later his grandfather signs the papers then Adam does a physical and Adam is already for war. The last couple pages told us that he is on a train to the boot camp and meet some friends on the train and on the last page it said that someone is about to sit at the table.

Thomas Blaubach May 11, 2009 page 43

I'm the passage picker. This is the passage "Sergent Bessie dismissed the rest of us and left Roy standing out there in the sun for the rest of the day. No water. Nothing. He passed out. The corporal went out and poured water on him, and then stand at attention again till chow time. I picked this passage because it shows how cruel the people running the camp were.

Thomas Blauach 6/8/09 Connection Creator

The character of Adam ties in with my life by. When he fells like he is letting his dad down by not going to war. I fell sometimes I let people down on the job. Even when I don't mean it. I can't take it back. I also can't change the person feels when I let them down.

Thomas I so agree with how cruel the camps where they had to go too. After that passage I don't think the Marines would be a good place for me because it was so hard on people.

Charlie Bolles

This is when you think about things in your life that you perceive as difficult. You will then realize that the things we face are usually not nearly as bad as some of the things others have been through. ~Mrs. Best  Thomas Blaubach 5/15/09 Disscussion Director

Sorry, I need to catch up. My computer had a fit. Here is some questions I would like you to answer.

What are the some characteristics of Adams CO, Captain Weaver?

Will he have the courage to do his duty and fight at Okinawa against the Japanese?

Is he doing a good job so far of trying to be the best marine he can be?

Will he even survive his duties fighting against the Japaneses?

Will he be able to withstand the hardships the war beholds for him and is fellow men?

Thomas Blaubach 6/8/09 Dissscussion Director

Captain Weaver was very nice to Adam. Much nicer than the people at the camp.

He did have the courage to fight Japanese at Okinawa. He got hurt doing so. Which takes a lot of courage.

He was being the best marine he could. By attending his duty.

He did survive his duties fighting the Japanese.

He does survive the death of his friends Ben, Rex, and Rosie. Leaving the war it will scar him for life.

Your job is also to answer the questions you have posed. That is how discussion is generated. ~Mrs. Best

Thomas Blaubach 5/15/09 + 5/22/09 Connection Creator

Adam's fellings ties into what I fell sometimes that you feel like your letting somebody down on the job. That you want to do something about it but you can not change the past or what the person you let down is felling. When you do not know if they will forgive you or not? Even if it was an acceident what will be the consicuence? Even if you really hurt them in the inside.

Thomas I feel the same way on letting people down. It is so hard do make a decision when it hurts a friend but helps another.

Charlie Bolles good thinking Thomas. You have a great point. Evan

Thomas Blaubach 5/28/09 artful artist

This picture shows the courage that these soldiers faced. sacrificing thier lives sometimes for others. To sit in a fox hole for hours not knowing if I will live another day. I would probably not be able to handle that. With constant fireing, diseases, flying gerneades, and all the man who died on the battle field. They were just trying to help thier country. I would feel guilty saying that should be me! Then constant felling that those hours in the fox holes could be my last.

Thomas Blaubach Word Wizard pgs.93-104 The word I picked was furlough.On pg.96 " Davi was home on __//furlough//__ visiting his family and friends." I thought it meant taking a break. It means leave of absence. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Like leaving school because your sick or something that keeps you from going some where.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Were there any other words? When you read, you should choose a book that challenges your vocabulary. I liked furlough. It is when you are gone, but you have permission to be gone. I think it usually refers an armed service type of job. ~Mrs. Best

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Thomas Blaubach 5/28/09 super summerizer pgs.105-113

In these last pages of //Heroes Don't Run,// Adam feels happy that he is home but depreassed that Ben and Rosie died. Also leaving worldwarII America will never forget Pearl Harbor. Europe will try to avoid another hollocoast. That know Adam looks back before he was in the war. How much he wanted to go to war fell unstable and could never die. On one of the last page were he thinks to himself that he says //"Here I am...here I am with my sister."// //" There was another world of guns and death but that world is over, maybe forever. We'd made a better better world." "I was so glad that she// (Bea) //<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">would never have to know anything about war."

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