It had been a couple of days since Eugene left and Rose wanted to do something.
Rose was sick of sitting around doing nothing so she decided that she would enlist as a nurse so she could do her bit for the war. Rose got up that morning and got dressed and walked down the stairs to the front room where her mother and father were sitting, and her younger brother was playing with his toys.
Rose took a deep breath and walked in, "Ma, Pa I need to speak to you," Clodagh and William Johnson looked towards their daughter with questioning looks, "I don't want to sit and wait anymore," Rose looked towards her father who was smiling at her with a knowing smile, "I want to help, I want to... to do something! anything!"
Clodagh looked at her daughter with a sad smile, "you can enlist to be a nurse," she stated in her Irish accent surprising her husband and her daughter, even six-year-old Timothy looked at his mother odly, "ohh, mo stóirín is breá liom tú (my darling I love you)," her mother said in Irish "I know you, you are me when I was your age, I came to this country looking for a better life and I found the best one." Clodagh looked towards her husband and smiled gently before looking back at Rose, "and I'll be damned if I let my daughter stand by while that life is put under threat."
Rose laughed slightly and leaned down to hug her mother tightly, Rose sighed before whispering "go raibh maith agat (thank you)."
Later that day Rose walked back to her house after enlisting but not as a nurse like she originally planned, Rose entered the door and shouted, "Pa!" William walked through the halls to his smiling daughter, "I did it!" she hugged her pa.
"Well, I'm not a nurse," Williams's smile faded into a confused look, "I'm gonna be a combat medic."
William took his daughter to sit in the front room with his wife as she told the pair what happened, "it's a new thing called the parachute infantry or something like that and I was signing some papers and apparently my answers resembled what was needed for a combat medic so they asked and I said yes." Clodagh's head was spinning but she wasn't going to say anything as her daughter was smiling so big she thought her face would crack.
Translations
mo stóirín is breá liom tú- my darling i love you
go raibh maith agat- thank you
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The Girl In The War (Under Editing)
Fanfiction*Band Of Brothers and The Pacific Fanfiction* *HBO War* Rosaline "Rose" Johnson was just like any other girl in Mobile, Alabama until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Her best friend, Sidney Phillips, signed up to be a marine while her and their o...
