BreannaP2007

Lost & Found
Nineteen fourteen age twenty four a handsome young man signs up for the war he tells his beloved sweetheart he'll be ack soon what he doesnt anticipate is the battle of somme July nineteen sixteen, age twenty six fifty eight thousand british troops are broken like sticks drowning in chlorine gas writhing in pain this is serious now this is no fools game as he advances towards the wire fellow soldiers drop all around never to get up again the sounds of bullets flying past bombs going off, screams of agony hundreds gone in one blast face in the mud poppies soon take their place nineteen thirty six, twenty years dead thousands of soldiers lost thousands of addicts found was it worth it?