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A troubled veteran attempts to forget the past by volunteering at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, but it proves difficult when he's close to the plane that changed his life forever—the Corsair.

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Retired Navy pilot William Beckington never planned to move on after The Incident and has lived with the guilt for seventy years. After failed attempts with PTSD counselors, his daughter recommends that he begin volunteering on the aircraft carrier CV-10 in Charleston, South Carolina. Reluctantly, Bill agrees, but his decision proves difficult when he stumbles back into the world of Corsairs, the plane he'd rather forget.

Seeing that The Incident still haunts him, Bill's new friends attempt to help him remember his long-lost joy; he attends Bull Dog Tours, learns the stories of other veterans, and strangely finds himself near the Corsair more than he would like.

While nothing will free his mind from the traumatizing memory of accidentally shooting his friend down, Bill must find a way to push past his grief and guilt to live the life he is meant to live—and rekindle Ted's legacy before he succumbs.

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*A friendship-centered military drama about love, PTSD, and grief.*

*Inspired by my older brother's death and what I've learned at Patriots Point while working there.*

*Curious about the airplanes we have at Patriots Point? Feel free to check them out! https://www.patriotspoint.org/things-to-do/aircraft*

Hiroyuki's Splendid Forestis a storybased on friendship and nature. It begins in the bustling and poverty-stricken city of Yoshi, where our main character, Nobulives. He's a young thirteen year old boy with a drive to see what else is waiting for him outside Yoshi. With the help of his grandmother and a young orphan girl named Shig,he feels more determined than ever before. Will he accomplish his dreams or not?

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(AUTHORS NOTE):

This story does contain mentions of abuse and animal death. If you are sensitive to those, please don't read.

I thought of Hiroyuki's Splendid Forestfrom watching Princess Mononokeby Studio Ghibli (Please do watch it. It's wonderful!) I loved the idea of preserving nature, so I decided to make up my own little story based off it. This is not made from the help of ChatGPT.

A Journey Of My Life: Fear to Fearless

Just put the off switch button

On your head

When you lay low on the ground of your sleeve

Get you up and running through the field

Reminisce me of childhood memories in the dark

When we went beyond our imagination

Can feel the happiness in our heads

Finally when we got into realize

It’s got stuck me unto the dead end of the road

Squeeze your storms badly

To get out the best of you at midnight repeats

Repeats of the same old versions of people

Will bored them every day

Got their own dreams of kingdoms

Can’t redeem

What’s the purpose of yours being here

Until we sacrifice with our own

We will sacrifice ours

To the end ahead of us

But

Will achieve the goal in the end

With midnight repeats

Come again with the sweet dreams

Finally, we have met you at present

With the hardest on your face

Don’t smile

All know you don’t want to do it

Midnight repeats

Will begin again

I know this one is a really familiar word to us even these days and in past days of human life because this is the primary thing in our human life. What keeps us on this lifeline? Just think for a second what if we don’t have a thing called true or lie in our world or our life? What do you think about what could be happened, what could be done? Actually what you will think about this? That’s the important matter here. That’s all we waiting for to hear your ideas, and your thoughts about this one. Most people I know or people I don’t know are mostly I mean often use this subject all the time in their lives. People say it would help you with a lot of things and it will be easy to do your work.

I know, I know what you saying here Y’ll. Don’t repeat the same thing I know myself over the year of my life, to me life is a very miserable and mysterious thing. I mean not only my every life on the earth including the animals, trees, and humans too. Cuz I feel that way most people don’t even know what are they doing here, the best part is even don’t know the reason to be here.

Like I’m not trying to be disrespectful to anyone here. I’m just trying to express my feelings (Thoughts). If this got disrespectful way to anyone kindly accept my apologies. Howsoever I have been hearing this is the world-famous and trending subject all the time my friend you gotta know what it is, as to me the reason to be here all of us in we gotta, we have to give something, something productive thing to yourself and to the all of us living here now, to the people who watch you. Who waiting to get your help, who waits to see you go up and down in life? Who trying to help you to go to the higher ground so I’m gonna say is you gotta do what you gotta do cause as I remember there is an old saying in people’s and people’s conversations. Everything has a price, boy if see closely enough there’s a possibility to get it but to me, I want to remind it in a different way of it. Everything has a time my friend but I know you will think they both have the same meaning cause just get both saying together and inspect them with your mind carefully. So then you will get to know the equality of it.

Oh, I think we miss the subject part here we coming to talk about. Let’s straight get to the point now. Lie — lies within us every time we living in up here. You know what I said right? We’re an untruth ( As to me ) we’re all doing falsehoods here. Just take look around yourself you will see what you have been missing all the time but you have to take a look carefully are forceful if not you will see the same thing as you did see before. If you can’t do that, just don’t.

Lies, Lies, Lies it’s a headache having things to myself sometimes I feel like I can’t handle them anymore like I don’t want those anymore but some of us are comfortable with it. Actually, they have used it that’s why they can’t let it go but if they try I know they will get a chance to let it go if not they will be struck on it forever and ever. Anyway, this is how it works.

Everything we saw here, in our own eyes.

Those all of it is covered in lies and truths.

Sometimes all of this shit is off the balance.

It’s hard to fit into those situations but we have to do those anyways.

Like yesterday, I remembered the day I have seen her

Something with a black dress and various colorful flowers on it

She stands in front of me singing the wildest song I have ever known

With the purity and faith in her heart about karma

I think she really did think about life

She’s a kind girl who will love you forever

She is like my mother

Do you ever seen an angle dance

fortunately, once I did

Time passes me by, the picture of the angle getting erasing from my mind

The face of light got faded it out

Can’t remember how she looks like

As I remember I have seen her a only few times in my life

Both know who we are but never talked

Feel the mirage of conversations

Charm and disciplinarity got her move on to my heart

Never knew how this is gonna be

If knew would have spoken to her ages before

the simplicity of yourself won all competitions in everyone’s life

Even though my mind still can barely see how you smile with me with your friends

I know those days are gone

Even now I can memorize you there

The place of we first saw each other

When we pass by the road of street we only smile at each other

Why haven’t we ever speak

I think it’s me not wanted to talk to you

The sacredness and shyness got me struck

Will never get those moments again

But

If I get I’ll not pass you by.

This should be posted before few weeksBut I got busy with all these thingsI'm gonna talk about a real queenWho guided us to achieve these things

I never feel afraid when she stands with meFeels the whole world on their knee when she is on her feetNever saw a strong and bold woman like sheShe has a kind heart even angels can't defeatRemember all the things she taught meShe said everyone is equal and freeBe so smart, respect all human beingsShe is my mother and I'm so proud to tell itShe is the smartest woman I have ever seenMay she live million years as a queen❤️

Written by Banusha Yasminda

It feels like everyone pretends like there are care about us but actually they are not.

They just actually wants from you is something else.

Every people who lived here there are pretending someone else character.

I don’t know why is that.

but I know people are all fake.

you will think why I’m saying this to you.

because some of my abilities say I know how they behave themselves front of strangers seeing it to me it’s like such a mess.

I always wanted to say to the people be themselves in every place in the world, every situation, every second is you.

don’t pretend I feel that sometimes it’s like some people to its a nuisance.

they want to act cool.

like a superman but in reality no one else by that name.

What’s going on here actually and I wanted to say this especially there is a good one too. ok

We all have different fears for everything we see but I want to talk about my fears what inside me have all the time.

I can’t do a thing correctly. Some time because of the Fears It’s Like it’s around me all the time.

I want to get rid of it but I can’t I try to do it.

No actually not I let fears control me that’s why I can’t do things.

My father told me to don’t be afraid, think you can do it don’t be fear or Pressurized all the time.

It’s nothing. But I’m still trying to figure out how to do that. I know I can do it, so now I think it’s a little bit better now.

I can do things now with more force. When fear Around me, it’s like saying to me I’m going to make this, going to mess this up , I can do this, why is it that I want to know the reason behind it, is it something bad in the world.

I mean fear how can I Say that. Is fear let you down or let you up. Fear, the bad side of the wall or good side of the world .

The reason I’m saying this is.

I want to know is it some kind of help or not Like sometimes fear gives the courage to do something We fear so some of us are going to do it some of us, not.

Even when we get through this I’m not sure when fear Around us Can we do our things properly, I just don’t know what is fear is why we feel that. It’s killing me now slowly I want to get rid of it.

I try every time but when the Times comes it’s happening so here I’m.

What do you think about our minds, Do you ever see it, I mean in a dream or in real life.

Do you ever feel it ?.

Really what do you think about mind. Where’s it at ?. Do you think about that recently ?. Is it in our body or in our head.

Do you know exactly position where is it at ?. I think you don’t know that right. Yes, same here, I don’t know either.

But I think our minds connected with everything .

Everything connects to the everything.

Don’t you feel that way ?. Universe connects with us ( with everything ).

Mind, it’s in us. (Universe).

Just look at your environment, your life you know it’s creates because of you.

Your thoughts create your life, your future, your present situation. Our thoughts , ideas , feelings explodes to the air (outside).

Therefore we give a action and there have reaction for that. For example if we thought about good things it’s happens.

But you have to believe it harder. Other things same that too. It’s like you give a action, you think about good things and for that your thoughts explodes to the air (to the nature ) and give a reaction for that.

You understand , it’s simple theory.

If you do something (action ) there have a reaction for that.

We can called It short “Mind Action”.

That’s my idea about it and There’s a another thing I want to tell you.

It’s all about mind too. But this time it’s very different from first thing. I think space have equal sings to Mind.

Yes that’s right , right to me it’s like it’s just like mind is same as universe(space).

There have connection to each other.

Black hole is like our dark side

If you go there, there’s no coming back

Or

Mind is just empty space?

I think mind attract everything we want

It’s like. What do you think ?

So right now I’m going to talk a about myself here.

Ok then let’s start this every time I wake up I mean every day I living in my life in this world ah right,

it’s feels like fake shit to me. I’m just tying to say every day I’m living in a fake life. It’s really freak me out.

Really what the heck is this ah. Actually what are we doing here in this world as humans.

I’m really really sad and worried about about this life.

Really don’t know what the reason is. But it’s how is it. This entire life is fake shit.

( just don’t angry with me ) I’m telling you how i feel about my life and this world.

I want to share my feelings with you because right now I feel uncomfortable no ever-time ,every situation I feel uncomfortable.

𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴..