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Personal Narrative: A Stricter Family
Before enlisting in the Marines in 1917, he was in a Methodist college in Kansas. From that we see he comes from a religious background. After reading that it made me think that his family is a stricter family and probably "close" in the way that the parents have high expectations for their kids and want them to look good and acceptable to God. Once the war ended his friends had already came back and he came home years later. The hustle and bustle and greetings of the troop's home was over by the time he got back, so he didn't get much attention. He came home to his small hometown in Oklahoma, but didn't feel to welcomed when he got there. Everyone was over the excitement of the war and didn't care to listen to his stories. "Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he …show more content…
After coming home from the war, he didn't feel at home. When most think of home, its somewhere they are comfortable, or familiar, a place that you love and cherish. Many know of the saying, "home is where the heart is", well Kreb's heart was just not there in his small hometown of Oklahoma. He wasn't too sure of where he belonged, but he knew it surely wasn't there. He didn't feel like he fit in anymore, and neither did he really want to fit it with that town anymore.

I feel that from the first setting of being in Germany and France, opened his eyes so much to show him there is more outside your small hometown. I think he wanted to explore that and learn that. Of course he loved his family, although they weren't too caring, besides his favorite little sister, he just needed a change or a fresh start. I believe the war and seeing and experiencing that made the start for his life journey to begin. He needed a fresh start and a new
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