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Personal Narrative: A Day In Washington
It was a sunny day in Washington. Jax and I were taking a break from combat. We were visiting Washington so we decided to hike by Spirit Lake. It was 3:00 and ground started to shake Jax almost fell he said,”Johnny what was that?“ I replied, “I do not know.” Then we looked at Mount Saint Helens and ash spewed out of the gigantic mountain. Everyone tried to get away put only very few could.

There was no were we could go I said in a shout, “Into the water!” Everyone with no protection jumped into the water the ash. Fell like snow so we ran into empty cars most people had a wet towel on their faces. our vacation was over we could not get air support because the smoke was too dark to see so we had to get everyone to a safe place I said in a

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