Kipling's Choice (Final)

Author’s Note: This is a summary of the book “Kipling’s Choice”.

As a teen, the great Rudyard Kipling, the famous writer of the award winning “Jungle Book” loved his country to the end. However, in an attempt to join the navy he was turned down because of his poor sight. Devastated, he encourages his son John Kipling to join the military to fight in WWI, and because young John wants to do everything he can to impress his father, he accepts.
John Kipling, living in England during the early nineteen hundreds loved his father to pieces. He loved him so much he would do anything he could just to please the man, but because his father had very bad eyesight, John too has poor eyesight. Fortunately for Rudyard, John does not have as poor sight as he does and thus in an attempt to avoid history repeating itself, Rudyard Kipling encourages and almost begs his son to join the military when WWI broke loose. When the Kipling’s came to the barracks to enlist, the young Kipling would be made a second lieutenant a high ranking officer in the military. The lieutenant Colonel of the regiment had been friends with Rudyard for years. Within one year, the young eighteen year old lieutenant John Kipling would be shipped out to France and be in the fight that would change his life forever.
After a few years the young officer with great confidence has endured the worst sight imaginable, the art of war. The poor boy had seen friends being blown to bits by mortar fire, a battlefield littered with bodies, bloodstains covering the dirt, grown men screaming for help, and staring into the face of death. Truly, the boy had the littlest idea of what was to become. Within months, Rudyard Kipling would get the letter that would change his life forever, the letter of MIA meaning (missing in action) his only son had gone missing. The remaining Kipling family was devastated never before had they been so sad. This affected Rudyard the most, for he was the one to send him into battle. They searched days on end to find just the least bit of information on their son but none came. Then one day in honor of his son, Rudyard Kipling wrote down his final writing piece for as long as he lived.
---- If any question why we died tell them because our fathers lied.