The main problem with your essay is that you spend more than half of your paragraph giving the background of the attack (which is not accurate, by the way) and only in the last two sentences do you come back to the book. Change the first sentence to "... " Then tell us about the training, the attack, and the aftermath - and more importantly, how it affected the author.
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