Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
My Armistice Day Essay i still have a bit of my bibiography to do and then im done.
Back in 1914 to 1918
Back in 1914 to 1918
Have you ever thought about back in
the day when your great great grandparents were out in the war grounds fighting
for over peoples future and countries maybe even their own future let me guess
no well that’s one of the reasons why we should at least remember armistice day
the day the world war 1 came to a halt on the 11.11.1918 at 11.00 am if you think
about it world war 1 went for 4 years
3 months and 14 days that’s a long time but luckily when it came to a
halt all around you
there
was just peace and quiet no gun shots just birds happily tweeting away.
Hears a poem that will tell you
another reason why Armistice Day is important in New Zealand. (Hint)(Remember toughs who fort in word war 1)
War
Soldiers
dying, people crying, families torn apart,
No
one happy, everyone snappy, people with broken hearts,
The
war is over! Hooray! Rejoicing! Everyone smiling, happy at last,
But
wait, what of the soldiers who died, people who cried, the ones who feared, who
shed a tear,
The
soldiers? They’re buried with a cross over their head,
The
people? Still crying, their hearts are dying, and sometimes they wish they were
dead,
So,
on Remembrance Day, remember the soldiers, the families, the people, remember
the things they did for our life, our future.
Remember
them.
By
Syrah
I hope that helped you on
another reason armistice day is important but it doesn’t just stop there I’m
going to tell you about one of my family members that went to world war 1
Samuel Shaw Turtle Hawthorne.
Samuel was a kind caring
man as I’ve been told as I didn’t get to meet him he was so kind and caring
that in world war 1 he went to help his friend who had been shot in the leg and
when he was dragging him to cover he got shot and died he is a hero in my eyes
my families eyes to going back to help someone and risking his only life is
unbelievable. I respect him very much even if I didn’t met him he still put his
own life on the line for his friend.
So for you here’s a poem
I’ve chosen by another writer.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
(Fourth stanza of Laurence
Binyon's 'For the Fallen')
So your probably think were done and dusted here
but where not there are twoe more reasons why Armistice Day is important in New
Zealand so get ready for your brain to be packed with reasons why
So on 1914 the 28th
of July the soldiers from Britain, US, France, Russia, Italy, USA, Japan
Germany Austria/Hungry, Turkey and the Commonwealth started fighting most of
these soldiers were volunteers they just went out there and fort for the other
countries for some their own country it’s amazing how many people care about
other people’s future and countries. So that is another reason why Armistice
day is important in New Zealand because of the respect and hope for others that
the soldiers gave other people and also for going out and volunteering and
putting their live on the line.
This is a letter I found
that a solider named Geroge had written well fighting.
February 14th 1915
My darling and loving wife Emily
It is Valentines Day and my thoughts are with you
as always, I wish that I could be with you on this special day of love instead
of being here in this hell hole which Belgium has become.
I miss you little George and Harry so very much and
I pray for the day that this war comes to an end, please pass my love on to the
children and kiss them for me.
We arrived at the front line just over a week ago
and the smell was so bad that many of the men were sick, to describe the smell
would be an impossible task but some of the causes will give you an idea of
just how bad it is.
Raw sewage from the open cess pit, body odour from
men who havent had a decent wash for weeks, dead bodies rotting in shallow
graves and laying out in the open in no mans land, the smell of exploded bombs
and the odour of Mustard gas which lingers for a few days after the attack,
stagnant mud cigarette smoke and cooking smells all add to the unpleasantness
of the trenches.
They say that we will get used to the smell over
time but it feels like it will never leave us at the moment.
The smell attracts rats they are everywhere you
look and they seem to be unafraid to show themselves, there is so much waste
here that the rats are thriving and some of them are as big as felix our cat.
I shaved my head and my pubic hair yesterday
because my hair was crawling with lice most of the men have been scratching and
itching almost since the day we got here.
The rain is a constant companion flooding the
trenches and turning the floor into mud it is so bad that some of the men are
getting sores on their feet and can hardly walk with the pain.
Sleep his so hard to come by with the constant
booming and banging of the shells from both sides, my bed is a bunk which has
been placed in a dug out section of the trench, a mud roof a mud floor and the
constant theat of a stray shell keep me awake at night.
I am scared my darling Emily, my life is under
constant threat, bullets randomly fired at us, shells exploding every minute of
the day, men are dying all around me if not from a stray bullet or shell they
are falling with fever and disease.
Four of the boys in my squad have died already they
went through basic training with me and i considered them good friends, my best
friend John shot himself in the foot just to get out of here and away from the
trenches, he will be treated in a field hospital and sent home.
We are going over the top tonight climbing out of
the trench and attacking the enemy trenches
A and B sqaud went last night and most of them were
killed or wounded before they even got 10 yards out of the trench, it is
barbaric and a futile waste of human life but the powers that be seem to think
that it is the way forward and keep sending those poor men and boys to their
deaths.
I will close now and pray that this is not the last
letter that I will ever send to you my darling, I long to be back at home with
you and the children.
I love you with all of my heart
your ever loving Husband
George xxxxx
This letter was so sad. He tried to cheer his
family up and tell them he would come home he wouldn’t die he has a lot of
courage in him this is another reason why armistice day is important in new
Zealand for the courage pride hope and love the soldiers have for other people
that they either left behind or fort with or just others
Why I think armistice day is
important to New Zealand.I think armistice day is impoprtant to New Zealand
because we had pepole who went to
world war 1 and fort for the other
country not knowing when it would ever end or if the would survive some
of us had family members who fort in world war 1 so its important we have
armistice day in new zealand to remember who fort in world war 1.
So all together Armistice Day is important in New
Zealand because of the soldiers who put there life’s on the lines for others
and their countries maybe even their own also for their courage and pride and
love to everyone and for the rememberance of the solider who fort in world war
1.
Bibilography
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By Taliesha Hair Winton School Yr 7
Saturday, 6 October 2012
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