Сочинение о 14 летнем ученике школы, который ушёл на фронт со школьной скамьи. 1 место в городском конкурсе.

Composition about the ending of the Second World War.«Brave and determined».
Made ​​by the student of the 8B form.Vitali KaigorodovThe Teacher: Miheeva Tatiana AlexandrovnaKhabarovsk
2013 year
During the war years, our school had a student who went to the war just from the «school bench». This happened rather frequently during the war, but we are proud that our school had this student. His name was Nabokov Kolya, full name - Nabokov Nikolai Prokofievich.
To the front, as Kolya hoped, he certainly did not come, because the front was very far away and Kolya was just 13 years old, he studied at school in the seventh form. But he really took part in the Great Patriotic War as a young sailor in the Amurskaya Flotilia. So listen…
When the Great Patriotic began, Kolya was 12. His uncles and 62 other men- citizens of Beryozovka went to the Western Front in summer of 1941. Their relatives were waiting news from them. Good news a postman brought in triangle letters, bad news – in telegrams. Every letter was like a present. Children often played «The War» and imagined themselves brave and invincible, built barricades and scrawled in the snow. Nobody wanted to be «Germans» or «Fritz». So they were few and always lost the battle. Kolya was interested in the war affairs, listened to the news on the radio. He was very upset that our army had to retreat. When wounded and mutilated soldiers came back to Beryozovka, Kolya’s wish to go to the front became very strong.
It was the second year of the war. Pavel Lysov, who went to the front from the very beginning of the war, came back to his family. He was a radioman and he lost three fingers on the right hand when he was connecting wires. He got a medal «For Military Merit», because he provided link during the battle in spite of his wound. In Kolya’s and other teenagers’ eyes he was a real hero. Two more wounded soldiers came back home. One of them was an infantryman, the other was a tanker. How many interesting heroic stories they told!
Kolya could not wait any more. The war could finish soon, and he wouldn’t become a hero, like these people. His mother begged him to stay at school for one more year, but Kolya decided to go to the front just as soon as possible.
He walked to «Baza Kaf» and asked to take him to the school of cabin boys, because he wanted to be taught to fight and to be sent to the front. Though the boy was very young, he was rather tall, and was listed in the army. He was very glad to hear that because he thought he would be sent back to school.
He studied in a group, where deckhands were training. The discipline on the ship was very strict, and the boys had to learn and to work much, but he had a great deckhand clothes and was happy. He tried hard and was one of the best pupils. Sometimes he went to Beryozovka, which was six kilometers from «The Amurskaya Flotilia» and every boy looked at him with admiration and envy. Kolya was so proud of himself and each time he said proudly: «I think soon we go to the front».
In spring of 1944 he had a practice on the tug X-2, which stood in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The battle way of the young sailor started from crossing the river to the right bank of Amur to the city Sahalyan which is just opposite the city Blagoveshchensk. Kolya took part in the landings, in delivering food and ammunition to our soldiers. For his courage in combat missions, he was awarded some medals. When he got his first medal he was just 16.
To be honest, I probably couldn’t be so brave, persistent and determined as Kolya was, so I respect him very much.