When he tracked his old friend down, he asked if Bernard would help him remember things about the war. ... Wars would look good, and we would be sure to have more of them. ... He will strive to look back no more. ... He sees his birth and death and everything in between, all out of order, with no pattern to predict what will come next. ... He goes back to the red light of pre-birth and then forward again to a day in his childhood with his father at the YMCA. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... They believed that more negotiations would eventually work. ... With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. ... With the separation of -4- Germany, no one knew what would become of Germany or where it would be in the future. ... The danger, some scientists believed, was that having a bomb this large would react with the nitrogen or hydrogen in the atmosphere and create a chain reaction. ...

• Word Count: 3726
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School