FREE ESSAY ON STARS AND SPACE

STARS AND SPACE

Death for Your Country
Is it glorious to die for your country?.... This question has 
been posed to many young people about to embark on war although the 
answer has usually been 'yes' in response to their country due mainly 
to the fact that the government instills it in the people of the 
country to support one's country and one way is to send young abled 
bodied men into the army. If you were one individual that was not in 
favour of fighting for your country you would surely become an outcast 
by the countries people. To avoid ridicule and becoming outcasted by 
the people living around you, you would join the army just in the 
thought that you were obligated to for the sole sake of your country. 
Such thoughts were reinforced by the government promotion of 
propaganda. Glorifying death is not needed to be taught and should be 
up to the sole individual. School systems should teach an unbiased 
point of view of war to enable the child to make their own decision 
to fight for one's country. 
Within the education system it was instructed to the teachers 
to teach the children at a young age during the brink of war to 
instill that their the life of the country and for them to defend 
their country against the enemy. Teachers showed being in a army was 
representing honour and the pride of the country. Guilt was laid on 
the students who showed rebellion by the teacher. Many times the 
teacher would try to show a soldier that looks happy and content 
trying to represent being a soldier makes you happy and content.
Many young inexperienced soldiers were sent to training camps 
near the battle fields that they would soon be sent to fight, for 
their country and their life. The training camps were situated on 
similar enviroments that resembled the battle fields of where the 
fighting would take place. Reinforced displine to the young and 
ignorant men. 
Trench warfare is when many soldiers of opposing countries 
fight against each other across a vast desolate, dirt covered land, 
and the only sense of cover was to crouch in a usually water logged 
trench. The sense of death engulfed your very soul, the conezt 
bombardment of shells echo in your mind long after it had ceased.
On the Western front conditions were horrible to say the 
least, stench of death remained coneztly in the air, bodies riddled 
with bullet wounds lay across the bottoms of the trenches, dismembered 
bodies scattered across the landscape and the sounds of agonizing and 
dying men echo across the battle grounds. Very limited rations