WW2 Letter

June 5th, 1944

Private Alexander
2nd rangers regiment
US army
1st Platoon

Dear Mom

My commander and squad have been discussing amongst themselves about the order that was issued that we are going to storm the beaches of Normandy. The troops and my friends all think that its going to be a bloodbath with those nazis falling to their knees. They are all pumped up. They are saying that the nazis should have learned from the war a few years ago that they can't just do whatever they want, its our job to put em in their place. Their confidence is to be admired but that wont save them. My commander's eyes have barely left the calm waves of the ocean since the order was recieved. I don't think i've ever seen a man that afraid of anything before in my life. He looks like the walking dead. I tried talking to him to find out more about what we were getting ourselves into and he told me it was a suicide mission. He told me that we were going to take the flat boats up onto a shore that is heavily protected by enemy machine gun turrets and many troops. He told me that our chances of survival were next to nothing.



At a time like this, getting scared isn't going to do anything except physic me out. I have my trusty rifle and my brothers beside me. I will emerge victorious no matter what and no man will stand in my way. Semper Fi.

Blog 15

Something that came out of the war that really interested me was that rules were established for warfare. I would think that war would just be "no holds barred" win the war dirty or clean. I knew that some weapons were banned for being too destructive to the land but i didn't think there were people running around on the battlefield that weren't suppose to be shot at. I think rules in war (for weapons) are a good thing because some weapons even though they destroy the enemy, they can make the land uninhabitable which is bad for everyone. I think that rules where you can't shoot certain people is stupid because if they are for news or not they could still help one side of the war.

Blog 14

To me what I find interesting about the wars is that in both wars its Germany who thinks they are better than everyone else and tries to conquer everyone. I also find it quite interesting how even though on paper they are stronger than everyone else that they still didn’t win the two world wars. In the first war the Germans are just trying to take everyone’s land and in the Second World War they are trying to exterminate the Jews.

I hope to learn more about tactical strategies on the battlefield and to learn how the leaders of the United Nations deal with things like giant wars.

During both wars, new weapons were created to better kill the enemies, a few of those weapons for example the napalm bomb were outlawed by the united nations for being too destructive. If the wars didn’t turn out the way they did, many of the problems today wouldn’t even be there because the world would be without Jewish people, and America wouldn’t have the same style government as we do. The Germans would have invaded and we would be under the command of whomever Hitler would appoint as new leader of our country. But they didn’t win so that didn’t happen.