~Will Kugeler, Class of 2025 

“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money”-

Pablo’s Picasso 

Chapter 1 

Take over the chateau.

James Kugeler is 19 years old. He was a Canadian paratrooper in World War 2. His troop battalion 9th is trying to secure the German chateau. There, Mcloed was partnering up with people, and his friend Sam was in his group. Surgent Mcloed was securing the second floor of a barn when a big gun hit it and it went up in flames. I’m securing the front door. James hates the feeling of people dying. After Surgent Mcloed died, James and Sam ran back to the fence and saw this guy from C Company with a mortar bomb.

They went to a little bunker, put the mortar gun in a stance on a tree, put the bomb in the shell, went up, and the bomb went directly into the German tank. All of the Germans surrendered. James and Sam had met with all the remaining soldiers and went to secure the chateau. James and Sam took the basement; two other soldiers took the second floor; and lastly, two soldiers took the first floor.

All the floors were secure, besides the basement. Sam forced James to go down there first. James was scared of his own basement when he was a kid. He once got locked in his basement by his brother. Back to the story, the basement stars were so creaky that when he finally got to the bottom, everyone in the basement could have heard him. Luckily, there were French people living there. The father was the cook. The mother was the servant, and the kid made beds. They were so thankful that they had come.

The mom was kissing them, the dad was shaking their hands, and the kid was saying thank you in French.

Chapter 2: Samira and her mother, Kenza.

Samira and her mother Kenza were sneaking out after curfew to tell the French resistance that D Day was happening the next day. On the way, they saw French citizens getting dragged away from their homes. Kenza had realized that the day before the French resistance, one of the German officers had been killed. Kenza told them not to do that. Kenza went to get this mother, who was trying to escape, and told Samira to get the dog.

Samira was lucky to get the dog, but Kenza wasn’t. She got caught and was dragged to the van. Samira started holding the dog tight so she wouldn’t cry. She squeaked, and two German soldiers heard her and went to check the backyard. She went and hid in the doghouse. The little dog came out and scared one of the German soldiers. She fell to the ground and threatened to kill the dog. Right before Samira went out to save the dog, the German soldiers heard the noise of their bus leaving, so they ran to catch it. Samira and I went in the opposite direction for about a mile and a half. Then they heard footsteps; they saw two German soldiers standing there, surrounding the gate.

Samira has a plan, so she walks up to the soldiers and says, I lost my dog. When she was about to call its name, she realized it didn’t have a name. How about jumpy? “Jumpy, where are you?” Then the dog burst out and came to her. She threw a stick, which they didn’t see, and the dog went running to get it. Jumpy, come back. Samira said, chasing after the dog ran into the field. The dog came straight to here, passing the soldiers. She was walking to the restaurant when she heard a BOOM!!.  The French were shooting again when a man walked up to her. Hi, my name is Samira. Who’s Samira “Oh yeah, you don’t know me.” I’m Hippolyta’s daughter. Yes, we shall call you Atlanta.

They start heading to a railroad track when they see this man named De Compiegne; he looked very suspicious. The rest of the group went to loosen the railroad track. Samara went to investigate the man; he was a spy for the French, as he was pretending to be the Nazi’s with his armband.

They talked to each other, and De Compiegne became part of the resistance.