Scott pendleton collins biography of donald

  • A historical novel presents the thoughts of a young soldier during war while capturing the feelings of being in battle through the sights, sounds.
  • Scott Pendleton Collins (August 14, 1926 – March 19, 1992) was an American soldier in the 116th Infantry Regiment during World War II. He participated in the D-.
  • Each harrowing day of battle in France convinces seventeen-year-old Scott Pendleton Collins that he may not survive.

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    The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II
    Walter Dean Myers
    Historical Fiction (Series)
    Ages 12 and up
    Scholastic, 1999, 0-439-05013-8
      Scott, like so many of the other soldiers waiting in England, is eager to be off. Though he does not have the details he knows that any time now he and his unit are going to get on a boat which will carry them across the English Channel to begin the invasion of Europe - to begin the fight to take back the countries Germany took over. Like so many young men going to war Scott has very little sense of what he is going to be doing in France but he doesn't care. All he wants is to be relieved of the boring waiting game they are all playing.
      At last, on the night of June 5th, 1944 Scott is on a boat feeling both seasick and nervous. When his boat finally approaches the beach in Normandy, France, he soon sees that the task ahead of him is a horrific one. How is he going to get to the beach head without being killed as so man

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    The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

    Also titled

    We Were Heroes

    Timeline

    May – August 1944

    There fryst vatten fighting every day. You can hear it down the road, or in the distance. Sometimes, when it fryst vatten cloudy, you can't tell where the sounds of the fighting are coming from. But they are always there. The artillery booms, booms, booms, and then fryst vatten answered bygd the echoes in the distant valleys, all sounding like heartbeats coming from the earth. Sometimes, I'd swear that war fryst vatten a living thing, huge and ugly, that eats up lives.

    —Scott Collins[2]

    The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, republished as We Were Heroes, is the fourth book in the My Name Is America series. It was written by Walter Dean Myers; his second for the series after The Journal of Joshua Loper. It was first published in June 1999 and reissued in March 2012 with new cover art. The book was followed bygd The Journal of Sean Sullivan.

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    The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins A World War II Soldier

    June 9, 2012
    On June 6th of this past week, we marked the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the day the British, Canadian and American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France and turned the tide of World War II for the Allied forces.

    This week on June 6th, I was sitting in the Children's Book and Author Breakfast at the BEA and listening to a short speech by Walter Dean Myers. Myers is at the moment serving as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and not surprisingly, he is also the author of more than a few children's and YA books. Myers work cover a wide variety of topical themes, tough topics such as war, murder, drugs, juvy jail. But Myers has also written some wonderful historical fiction for teens, like The Glory Field, the 250 year history of an African American family from the first ancestor forcibly brought to this country in 1753 to their lives in the 1990s.

    Among Myers's other historical fi