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ANZAC Day 25th April 2001

 

If you had been a young, fit, healthy man during WWI would you have volunteered to go to war?

Responses from Year 8

I would still go to fight because only real men would go and fight . And it doesn’t matter how you look on the out side but it matters what is on the inside.

I would join up because I would feel guilty if other people had fought to save my life.

I would have joined up only if my country was in trouble and had no troops and I would not join up because I don’t really want to die.  

If I had been a young, fit, healthy, man during 1915, yes I would have gone to Gallipoli. I just couldn’t stay if I knew that other kids my age were getting killed, even of they wanted to fight. I would probably wish that I didn’t belong to that country, and I wouldn’t want to go, but I would.

 

If you knew you were about to be sent fighting to your almost certain death

  • what would be the last thing you would want to do?
  • who would you write to?
  • what would you say to them?
  • how would you want to be remembered?

Responses from Year 8

The last thing I would do would be write to my Mum and confess everything I lied about and tell her I was sorry.  I would want to be remembered as her little girl.

I would sit down and go through the happiest moments of my life, write a letter to my family, and as I went, I would keep a happy thought in my head.  I would also pray for forgiveness and stuff.  I would write to my mother and father, each of my brothers and sisters separately, one letter to my entire family and one to my friends.  I would tell them how much I loved them, how I had died happily, for what I believed in and that I hoped that they would remember me.  I would want to be remembered as someone who had died for a purpose, who loved their family and who had a lot of dreams that couldn’t happen.

The last thing I would want to do is…..well, after visiting the Himalayas, the Chagos islands, the pacific, the Caribbean….but most of all I would want to visit England, and definitely Australia, Perth. Last of all, I would want to set sail and just sail somewhere, no necessarily having any destination.

I would want to write to 3 people, my older sister, my friend in Australia, and my friend in England

I would thank them for supporting me, for being friends. I think I would apologise for dying and for heaps of other things. Of course I would tell them that I love them and ask them to tell anyone else that knew me that. I guess I would say things about what I want to be done with my personal things, such as diaries. These are difficult questions, Miss Buckley, because there much be at least 10 people I would definitely write to

I would want to be remembered for being an okay person; I wouldn’t want anyone to think of me mean. But I don’t want to be remembered as perfect, I don’t want people to think that they knew everything about me. I want to be known when I’m dead as honest.

I would write to my friends and family.  I would say that I love them and even if I do die for them to get on with their lives and not to think about me. I would like people to think that I died for my country and that I would do anything for them.

The last thing that I would do is that I would write to all my friends and family

I would say to them that it doesn’t matter that I will die and I will love them always and they have been great friend and I will be with them always.  I would like to be remembered s a person who fought for my country and died.

The last thing I would do is think of my family.

I would write to my family.

I would tell them that I love them a lot but I wont be coming home.

I would like to be remembered as a brave man who  went to fight for his country.

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