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WW1 The Brian Dawson Story By: Justin A. and Terry Jones

In 1917, the year the United States army entered WW1 started, a young Caucasian man named Brian Dawson was growing up in Los Angeles, California. He was 22 years of age and was living alone in LA. Brian’s family wealth was really high. His mother and father were very elderly and so lived with Brian’s younger sister Carol.

Now everyday Brian worked at a recycling factory melting things down for a living while going to college. Brian’s girlfriend Mariah also works with him in the recycling factory while going to the same college as him. One day while checking for mail at his college, he received a letter from the United States military saying that a car will come in the morning and that he will report to the Marine corpse base in San Diego tomorrow.

Now Brian didn’t know what to do. He called his parents to ask them what he should do but they said he’s a grown man and he’ll know what to do. He called Mariah to ask her and she said you’ll know what to do but just be careful. So that night that night he packed his belongings and left to go to the base.

Now when he got there he was a little nervous because he never paid much attention to the military but that was about to change within a few hours. When he entered the base, he was stripped of all his clothes and forced to do 500 push ups for his training. His training instructor was a very brutal man, making Brian run through the rain and dirt.

After his first month in Marine corpse Base, he was sent to the part of base where they go through weapon and vehicle training. After his 3 months in vehicle and weapon training, he was sent into the Battle of Caporetto. During the battle, Brian and 5 other soldiers where driving into enemy territory when a frag grenade fell into their vehicle. Every soldier saw the grenade drop into the truck but only Brian reacted in time. He threw himself on to the grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Brian died in that truck and his friends in that truck buried him on the side of the rode being watchful that the enemy could be moving in on them.

2 weeks after death, Brian’s parent received a letter from the Marine corpse base stating the Brian had died in line of battle. His parents cried sorely knowing that their only son had died in the war but there was something else with the letter. It was a Medal of Honor reading “To a soldier who risked everything for his fellow soldiers”.

R.I.P Brian Dawson 1895-1917