How Johnny Kicked a Bomb Got His Name
Transcript
One winter day a young boy named Johnny was hiking in the Badlands. He was hiking near his hometown of Red Shirt when he came across an unexploded bomb. There was many bombs still located in the Badlands from it’s days as a bombing range. Johnny’s Parents always told them to be careful around these bombs and to get far away as possible if he found one, but today Johnny’s parents weren’t with him. He picked up the bomb and decided to throw in the air off a hill. The bomb hit the ground and EXPLODED. The Heat from the blast burned johnny’s eyebrows off and dove face first into the snow to cool his face. Ashamed and fearing the anger from his parents Johnny told them it was an accident. He told them that he was hiking alone and accidentally tripped over what he thought was a rock, only when the rock rolled down the hill and exploded he realized it was a bomb. His parents were just happy he was okay but from that day on, he was known by all his friends at school as Johnny Kicked-a-Bomb.
Coming from the town of Red Shirt, learn how Johnny Kicked a Bomb got his name from a misadventure in the badlands.