A few weeks
ago I visited France and Belgium on my school’s history trip. It was the most
life changing and most influential trip I’ve ever been on.
We visited
many WW1 cemeteries and the number of graves and number of men that had been
missing in action or men whose bodies were never found was shocking. From early
on in our WW1 history lessons we were given the statistics of how many men
died in that war. But nothing, in my opinion, can really demonstrate how many
lives were lost until you actually see for yourself all the names of soldiers
who died. Even then I don’t really think we can completely understand and
identify what truly happened in WW1 and the number of lives lost.
Every
soldier who fought had their own story. It was so upsetting to see the range of
ages of soldiers who died, even as young as thirteen, which is not much younger than me.
One day I
really want to visit every grave in every cemetery for WW1. Maybe it’s near
impossible but I really want to make it happen. Very unfortunately many bodies
were found but weren’t able to be identified as the name tags had been made out
of, for example, card board. Therefore their families have never been
able to know and be able to visit them. I don’t know why but I want to visit
the graves so I can at least have acknowledged them and been someone to
personally identify what they did in WW1.
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