Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

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It was November 12,1918 when my uncle came home after The Great War. He had fought in the war for the last four years. My uncle was fighting in France for a much of the war and we knew that he had been through some very bad times while there. He was able to send letters to my Grand mother every once in awhile. In some of the letters he would tell of friends that would not be coming home, and how hard being in a trench all the time was. He tried to describe the smell of gasses used during the war to us in his letters but it was hard to imagine. Since he has been home no one has mentioned or asked him about any of it. At home our country was still suffering greatly. We had sacrificed just under 1 million friends and family to fight The Great War. I have kept hearing from my parents and grown ups how broke our country was. The war’s fight cost was about $35,334,012,000. Britain's incurred debts equivalent to 136% of its gross national product. Britain had piled up a lot of debt that we could barely pay for food …show more content…
I am sure that the war cost so much money to fight that we could never pay it all. While the war was going on work for my dad became more dangerous, worse paid, and, very stressful along with just more annoying. This continued after the war when my uncle made it home. He had a tough time finding work do to Britain not shipping any goods because the Germans sank so many of our shipping boats. My mothers life was as it had been before, during the war and now after the war which is keeping the family together and trying to keep life as normal as possible, the issue of dealing with the toll that my dad's work life was taking on my family altogether. My grandmother did the work that all grandmothers do for instance telling stories, making cookies, and teaching me about my family

Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

All I hear is artillery blowing up and my fellow brothers dying right in front of my eyes it keeps playing over and over in my mind all I see is the war getting worse and worse walking over dead bodies the smell was so bad but then you get so use to it by now. One of my brothers being blown up screaming and crawling for his life…

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Personal Narrative-All Quiet On The Western Front

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Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

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Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

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Personal Narrative-All Quiet On The Western Front

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Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

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