Tales Of heroes
Dfown at the Veteran’s hospital a trio of old timers ran out of tales of their own heroic exploits and started brangging about their ancestors.
“my great grandfather, at age 13,” one declared proundly, “was a drummer boy at Battle of Shiloh.”
“Mine,” boast another,” went down with Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.”
“I’m the only soldier in my family,” confessed vetnumber three, “but if my great grandfather was living today he’d be the most famous man in the world.”
“What’d he do?” His friends wanted to know.
“Nothing much. But he would be 165 years old.”
英雄事迹
这个英语故事发生在老兵病房里，三个老兵战士正在各自宣传自己的英雄事迹，现在已经开始吹捧起自己的祖先来了。“我曾祖父在此一举岁时，”一个老兵骄傲地说，“就是shiloh战役中的一个鼓手了。”
“我的曾祖父，另一个说，“在Little Big Horn战役中和Custer一起以参战。”
“我是我家族中唯一一个当兵的，”第三个人说，“但是如果我曾今天还活着的话，他一定是世界上最著名的人。
“他是干什么的？“朋友们问他。”也没什么。只不过他就快成为一名称65岁的老人了。”
