Death For Your Country

been posed to many young people about to embark on war although the

answer has usually been 'yes' in response to their country due mainly

to the fact that the government instills it in the people of the

country to support one's country and one way is to send young abled

bodied men into the army. If you were one individual that was not in

favour of fighting for your country you would surely become an outcast

by the countries people. To avoid ridicule and becoming outcasted by

the people living around you, you would join the army just in the

thought that you were obligated to for the sole sake of your country.

Such thoughts were reinforced by the government promotion of

propaganda. Glorifying death is not needed to be taught and should be

up to the sole individual. School systems should teach an unbiased

point of view of war to enable the child to make their own decision

to fight for one's country.

Within the education system it was instructed to the teachers

to teach the children at a young age during the brink of war to

. . .

On the Western front conditions were horrible to say the

least, stench of death remained constantly in the air, bodies riddled

with bullet wounds lay across the bottoms of the trenches, dismembered

bodies scattered across the landscape and the sounds of agonizing and

dying men echo across the battle grounds. Virtually all soldiers felt homesick at one

time or another. This charge would be under

constant machine gun fire and mortar shelling by the enemy. Such cases became so

severe for some the soldier would go in fits of rage and fear at the

very same instantance.

Trench warfare is when many soldiers of opposing countries

fight against each other across a vast desolate, dirt covered land,

and the only sense of cover was to crouch in a usually water logged

trench. Often raining, it caused muddy, damp conditions. I personally would not risk death if friends and family

were not at risk. Teachers showed being in a army was

representing honour and the pride of the country. The men

staying in a trench filled with water and muddy conditions often

caused such diseases as trench foot and trench mouth. The

counter attacks were similiar to the actual attacks except the

difference was that the counter attack involved the killing of the

retreating of the enemy instead of attacking someone under the cover

of the trench. Shell shock was an ongoing sickness affecting many

soldiers in the trenches. Coming back to their

homes the soldiers had received and learned of a new perpective on

war. Other than that the physcological and physical damages

soldiers endure would deter me from joining any army. The constant bombardment of mortar shelling

became so defeaning and monotonous the sounds of shelling remained

with the soldier even when there was no shelling. Very limited rations

offering very little in flavour was the only food available to the

soldiers.

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Death Country, battle fields, gun fire, machine gun fire, enemies trench, constant bombardment, attacking army, counter attacks, mortar shelling, thousands soldiers, one's country, machine gun,

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