How the fortress of our Holland had virtually collapsed?
- Date: May 10, 2004
- Level: Junior High, 9th grade
- Grade: A
- Length: 6 pages (1520 words)
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dutch army, join the army, parents, great depressions, household income, world war one, ...year 1934, finical, take a risk, royal dutch, taking time, financial condition, fortress, adolescent, chap, holland, conflict, 16 years old
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How the fortress of our Holland had virtually collapsed?
It was the year 1934, I was a adolescent chap, at the time just 16 years old, I joined the "Royall Hollands Vloot" (The Royal Dutch Army), after leaving school early not allowing me to continue my studies due to world war one and the great depressions effects on my parent financial condition. I was the last of 14 children living with my parents, and my 12 older brothers had moved on with there lives after, my oldest Dennis died in the late stages of the war during a barbaric bombing attack by the Russian's. My parents were getting old and hated the topic of war, and I agree they had the ...
... get on a train to Perth, BUT our plans were interrupted when after 3 days of driving we reached Mt. Isa where we stayed for a 2 nights and to meet lots of there migrated tourists from Europe. For the two nights we drank and drank in the small Mt. Isa pub until we woke the terrible morning and realised we had gone broke. No money to get anywhere, with a car that needed 4 tanks for petrol to get us 800km. For to week in Mt. Isa we looked for employment at the office, each day we where told to come back tomorrow, and we did until, I found a full time managers position
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16 May, 2004 05:24:56
This is an exellent eassy, comments made by my teachers on submition. The teacher which was marking this eassy is a SAS marker and I was given full marks.
