While packing what was inside my dorm room desk, I came across this penny that had the tail side worn down smooth as if was the perfected skipping stone washed by the constant wearing of the ocean. Some machine minted this penny in 1945 during the start of the Second World War. Tilting the smooth side of the penny against the light reveals an apparition of letters that once boldly said:
One
Cent
Fortunately, I have no memories of World War Two. I wonder how quickly I would have died with a rifle in my hand.