Dear Mum.
The past few days have been horrendous, we had been fighting non-stop for 3 and a half days. Your will be happy to know that I am safe and not injured; although I wish I could say the same for many of the soldiers that I fought with. Throughout the past few days I had seen many terrifying things that would completely change your idea about the war. You know how people say that Soldiers are meant to be strong, brave and fierce? Well this is not the case. They look like beggars that we would see on the side of the street as we were walking to the shop. As we were fighting everyone got more and more tired with each attack. They all looked as though they were sleepwalking. Not having a clue what they were doing. I feel as though the war as been presented in a completely contrasted way to what the government had said as I was joining for the war. When I signed up for it, they made it seem as though I was doing a great thing for my country and that we would go to Germany, fight out fight, then return home brave and victorious. However they did not say anything about the hardships that us soldiers would face on this unwanted journey. Innocent people such-as myself are dying left right and center, that all came to the war thinking the same as me. That It was an honor. The living conditions here are non-existent in normal human civilization. We sleep for nights in a row in trenches filled with mud and water. With out clothes soaked through to our skin. The smell is hideous too. The pain of my feet aching was growing each and everyday. They had temporarily died. I am beginning to become deaf in my ears, my ears have been deafened to even to the loudest noises of explosives that are destroying everything in its past. Each time I see the bright light shine from them I think I hoping one day I will come back to you. Each night seems to be getting harder and harder. Every painstaking day I am thinking about you. Your love is what has motivated to keep me going through the difficult and almost impossible of times. I just wish to be back at home with you. Why would the government do this to us, or to anyone in fact? If they are so confident and enthusiastic about the war then why don’t they come stay here? Even for a day they would not last.

They have blatantly lied to our faces using propaganda as their source of attack against the war. We were told it is what we should dream of doing, fighting for what we believe in. Not many people think as the same as me and still think it is right. I still remember walking to the shop to get bread in the morning, and on the right of me was a poster of a soldier pointing at whoever would look at it. It made me feel as though I should be ashamed for not joining the war and fight for my country. The guilt that built up inside me was enormous but it cannot compare to the pain I feel after each and every day and night here.

The past few days have been horrendous, we had been fighting non-stop for 3 and a half days. Your will be happy to know that I am safe and not injured; although I wish I could say the same for many of the soldiers that I fought with. Throughout the past few days I had seen many terrifying things that would completely change your idea about the war. You know how people say that Soldiers are meant to be strong, brave and fierce? Well this is not the case. They look like beggars that we would see on the side of the street as we were walking to the shop. As we were fighting everyone got more and more tired with each attack.