he would carry that style over to fiction when the time came. In May of 1918, Hemingway wanted to join the Army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother. Instead of joining the Army he joined the Red Cross. Later on in his Red Cross years he became Second Lieutenant of the Red Cross. While he was overseas he was sneaking smokes and chocolate into the soldiers he was hit in the leg by an Austrian machine gun. He also got over a hundred pieces of metal stuck in his body. Even though he was in extreme pain he managed to carry a wounded soldier to safety which was a hundred yards away. For his courageous action he won the Italian Medal of Valor. He spent all of his recovery time at the Ospedale Croce Rossa American, in Milan. His stay in Italy was the perfect place for his novel A farewell to arms. He was allowed to go home after his stay at the American Hospital in Italy. He returned to Oak Hill without any complaints. He lived with his mom until he refused to get a job was kicked out of the house. After that he moved to Chicago and got a job writing for the Toronto Star and was a sparring partner for boxers. It was in Chicago that he met a very pretty lady named Elizabeth Hadly Richerdson. Hemingway badly wanted to marry her but money was a problem so they moved to Paris. Because he had a child on the way and no real publications, he decided to move back to Canada. It was there that John Hadly Hemingway was born in 1923. His nick name was Bumby, that was also the name he preferred to be called by.When he was in the Spanish was he fought the way he wanted to fight, he attended dinner parties in London. The parties were way away from the fighting lines (D-Day had already passed by now). After a drunken party where he babbled on about hunting, fishing, and bull fighting he was in an extremely bad car accident. He was hospitalized for having serious head trama. Well when Martha got there she did not comfor...
