The Great War

During my travels in Europe, I experienced many parts of the war. I was in England right before the war began. As word spread by mouth that a war was coming, many changes occurred throughout the town. Stations were set up in the centers of town recruiting boys who were atleast 19 years of age to fight in the war. People who lived in the towns were selling their horses to the military o either work as calvery or other jobs such as pulling wagons or make shift ambulances. Since the start of the war, the town seems to be very patriotic and united. All of the people seem to be coming together to fight in the war. I kept in touch with a soldier who kept me updated with things that were happening throughout the war from a soldiers POV. He said that training was rough. He was apart of the caverly unit. They trained on the horses. The British army moves towards France and the calvery unit plans a surprise attack on the Germans. In the beginning the British are doing well, but as the Germans realize what is happening, they bring out the machine guns. Machine guns are a new type of weapon in wars. They are very dangerous and hard to avoid. The Germans end up defeating the British, because their horses just cannot fight with the machine guns. In Europe, the war zone is known as "Over There". Many boys tried to lie about their ages in order to fight in the war. There were some German soldiers who mutinied, and when they did, they were shot. German soldiers also went to citizens homes and took all their food and all of their supplies that they wanted. During the war, many people were poor, the war took everything from everyone. Some horses on the front were used for pulling artillery. The artillery is so heavy, that horses only lasted a month or so before they died. Another thing that took many lives during the war were the trenches. Soldiers hid in the trenches, and when they were told they would run through "No Man's Land" and try to attack. It's called that, because people rarely survive when they go through. Before they ran out, they would put all their valuables into a bucket and they would be given to those who survived. Overall, this war that has just ended has resulted in Wilson's Fourteen Points. The war caused the deaths of so many valuable lives and it was the bloodiest war that I know of.