• Enlisting more soldiers would have increased the chances of winning the war thus not wasting past efforts…
These casualties were particularly felt by the soldiers fighting in the war. With the soldiers living in trenches and having to fight alongside each other for survival, close friendships were formed, but tragically lost. In addition to this, once the war was over, many families were left without loved ones. Before the war, the historical perspective was that war was a good thing, a good time for the boys and a way for them to let off steam. After World War One, the perspective on war drastically changed. It was now seen as a terrible notion, and the people that were sent off to war were largely pitied. The war front majorly consisted of volunteer soldiers, with little training. Once the number of soldiers had become critical, the need for conscription…
Main reasons for conscripting troops were: supporting the mother country Great Britain, equality of sacrifice, and Australian troops had a good reputation that needed defending. Voluntary recruitment had failed to bring in enough troops after the news from the war fronts spread to Australia. Many men were too scared or just couldn’t be bothered saying “What have I got to join for. I have no wife, no children & no parents depending on me so why should I fight. Let those fight that have something to fight for.” Main reasons against conscription were: there wouldn’t be enough people to work, the working class would burden the fight, too many Australians had died already and it would divide Australia even more. Many believed that no one had the right to send someone else to be wounded or killed or to kill or wound someone else. Both sides fought strongly but after two referendums and a whole year of debating the Australian public chose to not go forth with the…
Women became responsible for most of the work on the home front. They filled jobs left empty by men, took control of farms and factories, and still took care of life inside the home with their families. Although women could not fight, some still participated by working as nurses at the front lines. Brother was pitted against brother, the fighting was brutal and the carnage was extreme. Both sides were convinced that what they were fighting for was right, and the loss of life was tremendous.…
The Civil War was gruesome and tough and many people died. The Civil War was a big part of society, without the Civil War there could still be slavery or the states could still be not united. With the loss of a lot of young men made it difficult for everyone. Ransom A. Slack enlisted in the Army when he was 20 years old, he was a soldier in the Civil War. Almost everyone had at least one family member go to war. Boys as young as thirteen joined the war to be a drummer or even fought alongside hundreds of other men.…
There is nothing good about a war. All the volunteers see is the American flag waving and that “their fathers and their father’s father defended the United States.” They have no idea what is in front of them. Most are sent off to war; some pay the ultimate price for patriotism. They can be killed in combat or maybe worse, scarred for life reliving their experiences.…
Human life is interrupted for the chance to win a war. As World War I began, the United States had a smaller army. So, to increase the size, the government drafted men into the army, with and without…
In the civil war soldiers died in large numbers since the medical knowledge at that time was little so most soldiers never stood a chance even after enduring single gunshot wounds. At the beginning of the war both sides had many volunteers. Later on, people stopped volunteering and there was a shortage in the number of soldiers required to fight. As a general in the Union army I would use conscription to get more soldiers to enroll. Seeing as this is an unpopular method, people who wouldn’t want to join the army would have to pay a fee, commutation fee, to avoid being drafted. This would ensure that I get soldiers and for those who wouldn’t want to be drafted the fees the paid would provide finance for the war.…
The year 1917, was a time of worry and despair. As there was not enough people in Europe to fight in the war. Ideas of conscription floated through the minds of members of Parliament.…
Veterans gained the GI Bill of Rights that guaranteed a better future and job training and education.…
In 1863, seeing the confederates oncoming to the North, The Congress decided to recruit more people to the army. Consequently, the Conscription Act led to the riots in New York City during 11-16 July 1963 that is known in history as the Draft Week. In fact, the uprising was a rebellion of the Irish immigrants against the black inhabitants of New York, which finally became one of the most destructive riots in the history of the city.…
Tens of thousands of fathers were killed in the war. This caused many children to become orphans, causing the opening of many orphanages all across America. Some children wanted to become soldiers and they would slip through the cracks. For example, a ten year old boy named Clem was allowed to join the army at such a young age!…
We fight because we believe. Not that war is good, but that sometimes it is necessary. Our soldiers fight and die not for the glory of war, but for the prize of freedom and the ideologies that our country stands for. So great, were these ideologies, that men and women have bravely fought to defend them. OUR COUNTRY HAS FACED MANY TESTS OF COURAGE since its birth. Our answer to tests can be found in cemeteries from the islands of the Pacific to the coast of northern France. You can visit the hills in Arlington National Cemetery where markers record the names of more than 280,000 men and women. Each one was once or still is the most important person in someone's life. WITH EACH LOSS IN WAR, the world is changed forever for the family and friends left behind. IT IS UP TO US TO GIVE MEANING FOR THEIR SACRIFICE and de devoted to those principles for which these heroic citizens gave their lives. There is NO GREATER LOVE than to give your life for another. Our fallen comrades have demonstrated that love, and that my friends, is what Memorial Day is all about. FOR YOU TOMORROW, THEY SACRIFICED THEIR…
After the war, the men returned, having seen the rest of the world. No longer was the family farm an ideal; no longer would blacks accept lesser status. The GI Bill allowed more men than ever before to get a college education. Women had to give up their jobs to the returning men, but they had tasted independence.…
I bet all of you have aspirations to go to university or start an apprenticeship or even travel the world when you leave school, and I believe that most of you take this for granted. However, thousands of innocent people have this choice taken away from them for no reason at all! This is an outrage. I am here to talk to you about why conscription, compulsory military service, should be completely abolished. Conscription is a violation of freedom because it completely removes the right that we have to make our own decisions and lead our own life. This right is taken away in over 30 countries and can last as long as 10 years! You may be thinking, why is he telling me this? This doesn’t have anything to do with New Zealand. But, believe it or not, about forty years ago you would have had to abide to the slavery that is compulsory military service, if you resided in New Zealand. This speech will uncover the toll conscription pays on freedom, our opportunities in life and the stress it conflicts on families.…