Day One

If one is in my position, one would think, “Hey, I’m a soldier! I get to get a gun and shoot people.” Although you might feel like this if you volunteered for the army, the truth is quite different when you are forced into war. I, Uno Ramirez, have felt the pain of being torn away from my family and friends, then taken control of by strangers, and threatened into a form of work that I have feared all of my life. I knew that this day would come and now I am stuck in this horrid place. I used to fear these ruthless creatures and I still do, but now I am forced to become one of them, and that is far worse. Eventually, I will be molded into a rough copy of my fellow soldier’s ruthlessness. Juan is a jerk and he cares about me as much as he did about his studies, but that just means that I too could one day become like that. This does not mean, though, that everything is bad. Captain Mendoza, even though he brought us here, is actually quite nice and friendly. He listens to what I have to say and I respect him for that. The food is pretty tasty too, but all the same I am stuck in this prison with a couple of rocks and trees called a fortress. I might have a gun like my fellow soldiers, but I am only a useless soldier who is constantly surrounded by the one thing he fears most. And that is death and destruction.