Ghostwriting: The Peacetime Marines
Writing Sample – The Peacetime Marines
Kate Jonuska • Names and details changed
I have experienced many things in my life.
I’ve been complemented on my toilet-cleaning abilities but I was never a janitor. I am an expert vegetable peeler and chopper but I have never been a chef. My card tricks may dazzle and amaze but I have never been a magician.
I’ve ridden on horseback across pristine, sandy beaches. I’ve crouched behind a woman’s bed, naked, while she distracted her husband so I could make a break for it. I’ve been carried on the shoulders of imprisoned men who saw me as their leader.
Yes, these experiences are varied and colorful yet, if I am not any of these things, what am I? The truth is that I, Joe Smith, am a Marine. In the three years I served, I learned lessons, acquired skills, accumulated memories and gathered regrets. These stories of travel, adventure and rebellion may have shown me many things about myself and the world at large.
The most important, though, was one thing for me and one thing only: once a Marine, always a Marine.
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