[ WP ] Write a soldier 's journal entry on his first day at war . Then write his last journal entry .

My dear, sweet Veronica. 
 
 We had to cut our bootcamp short, we're being deployed on short notice. 
 
 Apparently there is a shortage of men available for the front lines. 
 
 I miss you, I really do. 
 
 But here I must go and fight, if not for any reason but to keep you and the baby safe. 
 
 
 
 
 My dear sweet, Veronica. 
 
 In the past few months since you've last heard from me, I'm afraid... my way of thought seems to have changed. 
 
 The doctor has said I have... something known as *shellshock, * silly of a term as it might be. 
 
 I wake up in the middle of the nights dreaming of it. Of the shot I took, that is. 
 
 I shot someone, you know. 
 
 They never said how small some of the targets would be out here. 
 
 I do n't know how long the doctors are going to keep in this room, but I do hope these dreams will soon go away. 
 
 They say I attacked another American. 
 
 Strange. I had a dream about it, and I was sure he was holding a gun, but when I woke up he was unarmed... and he really did n't look much at all like that boy... 

