It's the fall of 1916. You are a young man from Newfoundland who has just turned 18 years old. Your three brothers all died fighting in the Battle of the Somme. Your parents have lost all of their children except for you. Your friends urge you to join them in the war. Your parents beg you to stay. Do you sail across the ocean to join the troops or respect the wishes of your parents and stay in Newfoundland?
To be honest, I would stay home. It would be absolutely devastating for my parents if their last child died, and it would obviously be a major safety hazard, threatening my future. I'm not too big on war anways, so I wouldn't be disappointed for not going along with my friends. There would be too little reason to go, and too much reason not to go, therefore, I'd respect my parents' wishes and stay home.
ReplyDeleteI would go and fight because its for my country and they need all the help they can get and all my brothers did it and all my friends are doing it so I will follow in there footsteps and go and fight for my country, brothers and my pride
ReplyDeleteI would stay in Newfoundland. My parents have already endured an enormous amount of grief from having three sons die in a battle; therefore, I would not want to cause them anymore sadness. Nobody goes to war thinking that they are the one who is going to die. Most people think that they will be the lucky one. The one who survives, the one who is on the winning side. Since all three of my brothers had already died in war I would not go. My friends may want me to join them, but my family having one living child is more important. It would be extremely upsetting for my parents to have all four of their children go off to war and not have a single child to come back alive. At first I may not like staying home because all my friends are off at war. In the end staying home will be worth it. My family will have at least one child and I will still have my life.
ReplyDeleteI would go to war with my friends I won't stay behind while my friends risk their life, to keep my pride and to help the country with the other solders, and to let my parents know that helping is better then to not help
ReplyDeleteI would go and fight for my country and for my brothers. Even though I am outing a lot of stress on my parents I know I am doing the right thing. you never know you could be the difference maker in the war if you don't go. you could even go down in history as someone important in the war.
ReplyDeleteI would go because my dad always says the only people in the world that are most important are your siblings so I would have to respect that and go. secondly I couldn't sit back and watch the country fall like a coward. I would feel bad for disobeying my parents but going is protecting them and that would be my choice.
ReplyDeleteI think id go to war and fight for Canada and try my best to return home safely and not let my parents, friends and family down. Id do this to help Canada be stronger and be part of the "creation of a nation" I would also fight back in order to avenge my three brothers.
ReplyDeleteI would stay because my parents have already lost three of their children and losing another one would be awful for them. I would feel like I was letting down my friends by not going, but my family is more important, and I need to be there for them.
ReplyDeleteIf I was in this situation I would probably stay with my family to support them both in there hard time and I would hope my friends would understand and if they really needed me maybe a year or two later
ReplyDeleteyeah I agree
DeleteI would stay. I wouldn't want my parents to worry; especially after losing her 3 other children.
ReplyDeleteI would choose to go and fight in order to help secure my parents' safety and the rest of my countries' freedom. I would tell them that I intend on coming back home safely but cannot make any promises. I would want to honor my brothers and the freedom of my people. My family and their safety mean the world to me.
ReplyDeleteEasily I would stay. Just thinking of the deaths of my brothers would have me crying and depressed, so thinking the pain my parents would feel knowing that a fourth child is going to some distant land to wind up dead. That would definitly make me want to stay with my parents.
ReplyDeleteI would go out to war but I would try my hardest to get a position farther back in the ranks to hopefully increase my odds of surviving the war to go home to that I make my friends and my family happy, and also in the process I would be contributing to win the war
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DeleteI personally would stay home, because if I was killed or mortally wounded while fighting, my parents would be absolutely devastated because now they would have now lost four sons and with no more. If I was just maimed it wouldn't be so bad and I could go home, but my parents may blame themselves for not trying harder to keep me home, or they may pelt me with I told you so's. Another reason I wouldn't leave is because if I left and died, my parents wouldn't have any help around the farm or house, and would have no offspring to carry on their legacy and family tradition.
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