Monday, December 22, 2008
Fight like the best die like the rest
Marvin Torres
Mr. Hoover
Writers’ workshop
12/16/08
Fight like the best die like the rest
“Hey honey get up for school” I tell my daughter in my NYPD uniform, I just joined the NYPD after I left the United States marine corp. As I walk in my daughters’ room which was pink and had many stuff animals.
“Hi baby you ready for school.”
“Daddy I can’t wait to go to the movies to watch Sponge Bob.”
“Come sweetie lets go eat breakfast.”
As I walk to the kitchen table I noticed I had a message on my phone. I picked up the phone and I open it I got a message from my commanding officer at PSA 4. So I start to read the text message it says your fellow officer Anthony walker was killed last night on traffic stop; the perpetrator was never apprehended. Come to his funeral ceremony toady at 1300 hrs.
Torres I need you to get hot on this case.
As I look at the name Anthony Walker I just stand there in shock and feel a tear go straight down my cheek. I start to feel dizzy and I try to hold on the table but I just let go and I fall back, I’m left looking at the white ceiling. My wife quickly run toward me and helps me get up. She sat me down to eat breakfast. She made my favorite eggs with cheese and sausage. I had lost my appetite and said,
“Come sweetie lets go to school”. I look at my daughter she looked worried and pale. As we both walked to the Hummer 3 my daughter asked me “Are you going to be alright?” I squatted down and look at her eyes and said “yes Ashley I’m going to be alright, come you don’t want to be late for school”.
As Joe puts Ashley in the car he notices he has a flat tire. Joe tells Ashley “stay in the car as I change the tire quickly” he then shuts the door and screams fuck! I look to my left and notice every car down the block has a flat tire, broken windshields, scratches and dents. Joe looks up knowing he was the lucky one. He changes the tire and gets in the car and drives his daughter toward the school.
“Ashley look at me I’m letting you go to the trip, but what you never do is wonder off without the teacher – okay”.
“Yes daddy, but after school can we have ice cream for dessert”.
“You only get ice cream if all your homework is done then I will give you ice cream for dessert. But I want to make a deal, the same deal my father gave me when I was your age.”
“What is it dad, what’s the deal.”
“ the deal is that if you do all your home work in one week I will give you ice cream on Fridays; so sweetie is a deal or no deal?”
“Ok deal but daddy you pinky swear.”
“Yes sugar I pinky swear look we at school go upstairs alright; wait let me get a kiss.”
“Bye daddy I’ll see you later.”
I go to work with the decision to move on with out my fellow partner. I get out of my Hummer 3 when I arrived at P.S.A. 4 and in to the roll call room. When the sergeant walks in we all were in attention.
The sergeant says “Today we are stopping any type of trucks and searching them. You guys be safe and remember our goal is to go home; dismissed.” Me and my new partner john get in to the police vehicle. John was a cool guy he had a long scar on his arm. John was very funny he also has a wife and two daughters “hey John what’s new.”
“My daughter has been skipping school for five days in a row and that’s the whole week but what I found out she skips with her boy friend.”
“It’s always the teenagers they just ask for problems.” Look at this truck driver he keeps staring at us; let’s stop it when it reaches Houston Street. As Joe stops the truck he gets a get feeling something is not right. Joe and john walk toward the truck at the same time in a tactic form. When john reaches the passenger door he sees a rifle and screams “gun Joe gun run back to the car!” Joe runs and gets in the patrol car and quickly dispatches for back up.
When back up arrives the perpetrator is arrested.
John the trunk is jammed I know there is something in there.”
“Joe here take this shovel and open it.” Joe opens the trunk and sees a lot of weed and dope. “John look at this; how the fuck he got this in New York? John ask him were the fuck he found this.” John asks Flaco but Flaco says in a calm voice
“Is not mine I rented that truck from a friend I never knew that was there!”
“Alright but you still going to jail, the truck is registered to you.”
“See you in court you fuck.”
“Joe let take him in.”
I month later Flaco is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ten years later Flaco is released.
“Hey Joe get up I made pancakes with eggs and sausage, come get up” my wife says. I go take a shower and dress up for work. I go to the kitchen to go eat breakfast with my daughter. I get so mad when she is on her side kick so I tell her “sweetie turn off your side kick and stop talking to your boy friend just because you sixteen years old don’t mean anything at all, most definite it doesn’t mean you’re free.”
“Shut up you always talking too much shit.”
“Look at me! The next time you respond to me like that your allowance is gone with your cell phone and the door of your room.”
“Oh my god!” she yells as she leaves to school. “Dona why is Ashley so mad at me; did I do something wrong to Ashley?”
“I don’t know, Joe she has been mad since she found her boy friend.”
“Oh really, I got to go to work honey bye.”
“Bye, see you later.”
When I arrive at P.S.A. 4 my supervisor tells me to file in the preps that come in arrested.
Its 1530hrs and I get a text saying (I was looking for you I found you now I am going to catch you). I look at the sender and it’s restricted I think is Ashley trying to scare me. I call Dona “hey honey I am going home you need something from the store.”
“Joe just come home I am going out shopping tomorrow”
“Ok later honey.” Well I get in my hummer 3 and drive home I get into the buildings garage. I turn off the car and I am about to step. I then noticed Flaco at the entrance of the garage I then notice Flaco at the entrance of the garage and his fellow friends. I step back in the car shut the door and try to call john but the phone is out of service. I start to panic I don’t know what to do there’s about seven big guys with weapons’. I start to pray the rosary and hope today is not the day that I die. I start to think about my family. Is now 2000hrs and is hot and I’m sweaty. The guys decided to go to McDonalds which was one block away. I watch them leave. 5 minutes later I step out the car and go upstairs. I walked out the elevator and I see my luggage’s to the side of my door. I run to the door and knock on the door.
“Leave Joe & don’t come back!” Dona screams at me, I don’t know what to say. “Joe I know you having an affair! Take your clothes and your wedding ring and go back where you came from.”
“Honey no-no-no I have no affair Flaco is looking for me.”
“Joe leave just leave.”
I take my stuff with a broken heart now I fell so depressed. Know I plan to go to my home where I was never betrayed by a close one that was U.S.M.C. base. I go back to the garage and into the car I get a call from Ashley.
“Hello”
“I hate you dad I can’t stand you, you always lying; don’t even think about coming back.”
“Ashley, no I am not lying.”
“Fuck you dad you never cared about us.”
I see Flaco and his friends come back; I take out my gun and say Ashley keep it going become a marine”. I place my silver gun in my mouth and my hands are sweaty, and my heart is pumping. POP! I shot the gun and I feel my blood going down my cheek. As I start to die I say “Ashley I love you take care and obey your mom.
That’s it Joe was gone. Ashley starts to cry and screams “he’s dead”
4 days later it was Joes funeral ceremony with the marines, cops, police commissioner and his only daughter; Ashley. The police commissioner offers help to Joe’s family. The marines folded Joes flag and I look at my mom and start to cry, we found out there was no affair. I know fell guilty and don’t know what to do. I pick up my fathers flag, the American flag. I put my right hand on the casket; dad you were one great father I would never have someone like you. And trust me I’ll keep it going.
Mr. Hoover
Writers’ workshop
12/16/08
Fight like the best die like the rest
“Hey honey get up for school” I tell my daughter in my NYPD uniform, I just joined the NYPD after I left the United States marine corp. As I walk in my daughters’ room which was pink and had many stuff animals.
“Hi baby you ready for school.”
“Daddy I can’t wait to go to the movies to watch Sponge Bob.”
“Come sweetie lets go eat breakfast.”
As I walk to the kitchen table I noticed I had a message on my phone. I picked up the phone and I open it I got a message from my commanding officer at PSA 4. So I start to read the text message it says your fellow officer Anthony walker was killed last night on traffic stop; the perpetrator was never apprehended. Come to his funeral ceremony toady at 1300 hrs.
Torres I need you to get hot on this case.
As I look at the name Anthony Walker I just stand there in shock and feel a tear go straight down my cheek. I start to feel dizzy and I try to hold on the table but I just let go and I fall back, I’m left looking at the white ceiling. My wife quickly run toward me and helps me get up. She sat me down to eat breakfast. She made my favorite eggs with cheese and sausage. I had lost my appetite and said,
“Come sweetie lets go to school”. I look at my daughter she looked worried and pale. As we both walked to the Hummer 3 my daughter asked me “Are you going to be alright?” I squatted down and look at her eyes and said “yes Ashley I’m going to be alright, come you don’t want to be late for school”.
As Joe puts Ashley in the car he notices he has a flat tire. Joe tells Ashley “stay in the car as I change the tire quickly” he then shuts the door and screams fuck! I look to my left and notice every car down the block has a flat tire, broken windshields, scratches and dents. Joe looks up knowing he was the lucky one. He changes the tire and gets in the car and drives his daughter toward the school.
“Ashley look at me I’m letting you go to the trip, but what you never do is wonder off without the teacher – okay”.
“Yes daddy, but after school can we have ice cream for dessert”.
“You only get ice cream if all your homework is done then I will give you ice cream for dessert. But I want to make a deal, the same deal my father gave me when I was your age.”
“What is it dad, what’s the deal.”
“ the deal is that if you do all your home work in one week I will give you ice cream on Fridays; so sweetie is a deal or no deal?”
“Ok deal but daddy you pinky swear.”
“Yes sugar I pinky swear look we at school go upstairs alright; wait let me get a kiss.”
“Bye daddy I’ll see you later.”
I go to work with the decision to move on with out my fellow partner. I get out of my Hummer 3 when I arrived at P.S.A. 4 and in to the roll call room. When the sergeant walks in we all were in attention.
The sergeant says “Today we are stopping any type of trucks and searching them. You guys be safe and remember our goal is to go home; dismissed.” Me and my new partner john get in to the police vehicle. John was a cool guy he had a long scar on his arm. John was very funny he also has a wife and two daughters “hey John what’s new.”
“My daughter has been skipping school for five days in a row and that’s the whole week but what I found out she skips with her boy friend.”
“It’s always the teenagers they just ask for problems.” Look at this truck driver he keeps staring at us; let’s stop it when it reaches Houston Street. As Joe stops the truck he gets a get feeling something is not right. Joe and john walk toward the truck at the same time in a tactic form. When john reaches the passenger door he sees a rifle and screams “gun Joe gun run back to the car!” Joe runs and gets in the patrol car and quickly dispatches for back up.
When back up arrives the perpetrator is arrested.
John the trunk is jammed I know there is something in there.”
“Joe here take this shovel and open it.” Joe opens the trunk and sees a lot of weed and dope. “John look at this; how the fuck he got this in New York? John ask him were the fuck he found this.” John asks Flaco but Flaco says in a calm voice
“Is not mine I rented that truck from a friend I never knew that was there!”
“Alright but you still going to jail, the truck is registered to you.”
“See you in court you fuck.”
“Joe let take him in.”
I month later Flaco is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ten years later Flaco is released.
“Hey Joe get up I made pancakes with eggs and sausage, come get up” my wife says. I go take a shower and dress up for work. I go to the kitchen to go eat breakfast with my daughter. I get so mad when she is on her side kick so I tell her “sweetie turn off your side kick and stop talking to your boy friend just because you sixteen years old don’t mean anything at all, most definite it doesn’t mean you’re free.”
“Shut up you always talking too much shit.”
“Look at me! The next time you respond to me like that your allowance is gone with your cell phone and the door of your room.”
“Oh my god!” she yells as she leaves to school. “Dona why is Ashley so mad at me; did I do something wrong to Ashley?”
“I don’t know, Joe she has been mad since she found her boy friend.”
“Oh really, I got to go to work honey bye.”
“Bye, see you later.”
When I arrive at P.S.A. 4 my supervisor tells me to file in the preps that come in arrested.
Its 1530hrs and I get a text saying (I was looking for you I found you now I am going to catch you). I look at the sender and it’s restricted I think is Ashley trying to scare me. I call Dona “hey honey I am going home you need something from the store.”
“Joe just come home I am going out shopping tomorrow”
“Ok later honey.” Well I get in my hummer 3 and drive home I get into the buildings garage. I turn off the car and I am about to step. I then noticed Flaco at the entrance of the garage I then notice Flaco at the entrance of the garage and his fellow friends. I step back in the car shut the door and try to call john but the phone is out of service. I start to panic I don’t know what to do there’s about seven big guys with weapons’. I start to pray the rosary and hope today is not the day that I die. I start to think about my family. Is now 2000hrs and is hot and I’m sweaty. The guys decided to go to McDonalds which was one block away. I watch them leave. 5 minutes later I step out the car and go upstairs. I walked out the elevator and I see my luggage’s to the side of my door. I run to the door and knock on the door.
“Leave Joe & don’t come back!” Dona screams at me, I don’t know what to say. “Joe I know you having an affair! Take your clothes and your wedding ring and go back where you came from.”
“Honey no-no-no I have no affair Flaco is looking for me.”
“Joe leave just leave.”
I take my stuff with a broken heart now I fell so depressed. Know I plan to go to my home where I was never betrayed by a close one that was U.S.M.C. base. I go back to the garage and into the car I get a call from Ashley.
“Hello”
“I hate you dad I can’t stand you, you always lying; don’t even think about coming back.”
“Ashley, no I am not lying.”
“Fuck you dad you never cared about us.”
I see Flaco and his friends come back; I take out my gun and say Ashley keep it going become a marine”. I place my silver gun in my mouth and my hands are sweaty, and my heart is pumping. POP! I shot the gun and I feel my blood going down my cheek. As I start to die I say “Ashley I love you take care and obey your mom.
That’s it Joe was gone. Ashley starts to cry and screams “he’s dead”
4 days later it was Joes funeral ceremony with the marines, cops, police commissioner and his only daughter; Ashley. The police commissioner offers help to Joe’s family. The marines folded Joes flag and I look at my mom and start to cry, we found out there was no affair. I know fell guilty and don’t know what to do. I pick up my fathers flag, the American flag. I put my right hand on the casket; dad you were one great father I would never have someone like you. And trust me I’ll keep it going.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Day Of 9/11 as it happend
Marvin Torres
Writing workshop
Mr. Hoover
October 23, 2008
The Day Of 9/11 As It Happened
It was the morning of Tuesday September 11th, 2001. It was really sunny and a normal day for school. I was too tired to go to school, but I got and went to school. Bush was the president at the time.
When I got to school it was about 7:55am. I went up to my classroom and put my stuff in my cubby.
I had gym first period, which was my favorite class in school. I went to gym with my friend Alfonso who was a new kid from Santo Domingo. When we got to gym Mr. Kennedy told us to go outside for gym. So Alfonso and I ran to the monkey bars. We played don’t touch rubber tag on the monkey bars.
I started to feel exhausted, I felt sort of dehydrated so I said, “Timeout! Timeout!” out of breath. Boom! Boom! A sound of multiple explosions. It sounded like a 30 second echo. About 15 minutes later many emergency workers were heading west on Houston toward the 9A west freeway.
That was all I heard, at the time I was six years old in the second grade. But in the morning I was having fun on the monkey bars. Then I was walking to get water with Alfonso. We both watched the school safety lock all back doors.
We were put in a position that we were facing the wall. All teachers were crying as we sat there confused. I saw my mother running in the front door of the building, with tears coming down her cheek. BOOM!!! There it was another explosion. There was that silence that didn’t feel right, I felt like a real hard shock wave hit me. I felt sort of deaf. Every one rushed down stairs and out the building. Many parents were looking for there children.
I asked my friend Alfonso “What do you think happened” “I don’t know, just don’t know” Alfonso said as he was about to cry.
Then a smell of fire came by it smelled really bad. Mom then said “Come on, come don’t be scared because god is going to protect you”. Me and my sister walked out but still confused if this was the right choice.
As we walked home all I heard were sirens and people yelling “oh my god”. “Mom why is Jesus letting this happen” “this isn’t Jesus we do this to our self” I know it wasn’t my fault I replied”. I got up stairs to the living room and turned on the TV just wanting to watch cartoons. I never liked to watch the news, but it was on every channel and they kept showing the replay of the World Trade Center. They reported to be a terrorist attack in the United States. I noticed some channels were not even working correctly. That just got me mad. Then I noticed this terrorism was plotted carefully, because they hijacked air planes which were easier than placing a bomb in the building and getting caught. 9/11 changed my life because I lost a family member. The question that came to my head was who did this? And would they attack America the country of the free? Did they forget we have the strongest military? Why the World Trade Center? Why New York City? I just kept thinking how hard it was for a man or women to notice that there spouse was not coming home that day. How hard could it have been to explain to there kids and for them to move on? Did you move on? I know I did. 9/11 changed my life because I lost a family member.
Writing workshop
Mr. Hoover
October 23, 2008
The Day Of 9/11 As It Happened
It was the morning of Tuesday September 11th, 2001. It was really sunny and a normal day for school. I was too tired to go to school, but I got and went to school. Bush was the president at the time.
When I got to school it was about 7:55am. I went up to my classroom and put my stuff in my cubby.
I had gym first period, which was my favorite class in school. I went to gym with my friend Alfonso who was a new kid from Santo Domingo. When we got to gym Mr. Kennedy told us to go outside for gym. So Alfonso and I ran to the monkey bars. We played don’t touch rubber tag on the monkey bars.
I started to feel exhausted, I felt sort of dehydrated so I said, “Timeout! Timeout!” out of breath. Boom! Boom! A sound of multiple explosions. It sounded like a 30 second echo. About 15 minutes later many emergency workers were heading west on Houston toward the 9A west freeway.
That was all I heard, at the time I was six years old in the second grade. But in the morning I was having fun on the monkey bars. Then I was walking to get water with Alfonso. We both watched the school safety lock all back doors.
We were put in a position that we were facing the wall. All teachers were crying as we sat there confused. I saw my mother running in the front door of the building, with tears coming down her cheek. BOOM!!! There it was another explosion. There was that silence that didn’t feel right, I felt like a real hard shock wave hit me. I felt sort of deaf. Every one rushed down stairs and out the building. Many parents were looking for there children.
I asked my friend Alfonso “What do you think happened” “I don’t know, just don’t know” Alfonso said as he was about to cry.
Then a smell of fire came by it smelled really bad. Mom then said “Come on, come don’t be scared because god is going to protect you”. Me and my sister walked out but still confused if this was the right choice.
As we walked home all I heard were sirens and people yelling “oh my god”. “Mom why is Jesus letting this happen” “this isn’t Jesus we do this to our self” I know it wasn’t my fault I replied”. I got up stairs to the living room and turned on the TV just wanting to watch cartoons. I never liked to watch the news, but it was on every channel and they kept showing the replay of the World Trade Center. They reported to be a terrorist attack in the United States. I noticed some channels were not even working correctly. That just got me mad. Then I noticed this terrorism was plotted carefully, because they hijacked air planes which were easier than placing a bomb in the building and getting caught. 9/11 changed my life because I lost a family member. The question that came to my head was who did this? And would they attack America the country of the free? Did they forget we have the strongest military? Why the World Trade Center? Why New York City? I just kept thinking how hard it was for a man or women to notice that there spouse was not coming home that day. How hard could it have been to explain to there kids and for them to move on? Did you move on? I know I did. 9/11 changed my life because I lost a family member.
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