Essay About Lot Of Time And Recession-Hit

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World War I Dear dad,
its really toght here being out at war. we have a very strict routine
I am still in the St. Marys Nursing Home in
Broadstairs. They say that I have almost completely recovered from the
trauma, and I should be able to leave this place within the next two
months. I think that I should be impatient to leave, but being here gives
me a lot of time to think – do I really have that much to leave for? I
know that I will always have you and mum, but have I really returned to “A
Land Fit for Heroes”, as had been promised by the politicians?
country to which we have returned seems to be an entirely different one to
the one that we left – when we left, the country was full of enthusiasm, we
were encouraged to enlist – indeed, anyone who did not enlist for service
was made into a pariah. The country to which I have returned is
recession-hit, and scarred by battle. No-one here can even start to
understand the loss experienced by all of the Tommies who fought. That is
not their fault, it is impossible to understand how it feels to watch your
best friends dying one by one, and being totally unable to prevent it, or
the fear that the next attack of the Boche might be the one where a bullet
hits you in the head, that that you might not make it back from the
offensive, or that maybe you wont be killed but just be left stranded in
no-mans land, with one of your legs blown off, that the next shell might
explode on you. That this moment might be your last.
Very few realise
that the scars carried by Tommies are not just those from amputations, but
also from the things that we saw, and heard. The continuous drumming of the
deluge of shells that continued for four years has sent