I said goodbye to the good German in the pointy hat and he said Merry Christmas to me and I carried Rodney over the mud and the tree trunks and the wires and the bodies and when we got close to the trench they yelled because they thought I was German and I yelled back and said its me Luther Baker and Rodney Stoker is hurt bad and they said hurry and I went into the British trench and everyone yelled and asked me questions they thought everyone was dead and then they took Rodney Stoker away and I didn’t see him anymore. The man with the big hat came out and said I was going to get a metal, but I told him I didn’t want any metal because it hurts but he said nonsense that I was a hero and I deserved a metal and he was going to see to it that I got what I deserved and so I said thank you. He shook my hand and slapped my back and seemed nice and so I told him the Germans spoke to me and gave me a paper with writing on it and said they don’t want to shoot anyone on Christmas. I showed the paper to the man and he tore it to shreds.
Then the man talked to everyone some more and said we are going to attack the Germans because they won’t know about it and we might not come back alive and he said we will leave on Christmas morning. He said we all needed to be brave like me because there were people back home who needed us to save them. I asked how many days until Christmas and they said tomorrow is Christmas and everyone is going to attack the Germans on Christmas to try and get inside Germany. One of the pals called the man in the hat a bastard and said no way I am tired of fighting and the Germans are too just look at Luther's note and the man in the hat took that man away and we didn’t see him anymore. Someone gave me some food and everyone grumbled and stomped and sang angry songs around the fire. After I ate, I went into the concrete room to sleep and it was filled with water because of the rain that came through the ground. I sat in the corner and could not think and could not sleep and I did not want to be in the world. I just wanted to be home with Mum.
I stayed in the world because I had to give Mum the letter Rodney Stoker wrote for me to tell her I was okay so she would not worry and so she would not be sad anymore.