Mansurian Narrative

It’s been about 6 months since I’ve arrived here in Germany. There have been many attacks but the most recent one has a story attached to it. This attack was considered the Second Battle of the Mansurian Lakes or as we like to call it, the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes. They planned for us to attack eastward from the front line in western Poland. Once they notified Chief Erich Von Falkenhayn, he sent us an additional 4 army corps. Hindenburg sent Hunt, Kepner, Avery, and myself to go greet the newcomers and tell them about the plan. Once we got back to camp, the general’s told us to prepare for battle because we would start our attack the next day. Of course Kepner started freaking out because she hadn’t had the chance to go down to the
lake and wash her lucky pants. That night Kepner, Avery, and I went down to the lake to wash our gear, Hunt stayed behind running through drills with some of the newer recruits. On our way back, I rolled my ankle but didn’t really think anything of it. Kepner and I were waken to news that we were being transferred to the Tenth Army. We put our gear on and saw that Avery and Hunt were transferred as well with a new recruit, Jay Halstead. We progressed ahead with snow drifts almost as tall as me, this slowed us down a bit but we kept going. Since there was so much snow, I couldn’t see the hole I was about to step in. I ended up tripping and breaking the ankle I had rolled the night before. Colonel-General Hermann von Below told Avery to carry me back to camp, good thing we weren’t that far. Kepner and Hunt got back to camp along with the rest of the survivors a few weeks later and told us about all the Russians they captured and that Halstead had saved both their lives by shooting down one of the Russians that was ready to execute them both. Now everyone is training for the next attack and I’m here in a cast for the next week, helping the nurses stitch up those who were injured. Until next time , Reyes, Natalia