December 16, 1918
Diary Entry #1
I feel
that I must write in order to release my frustrations and tension without
troubling my own family. I simply cannot fathom the fact that we’ve lost more
than 60 000 Canadians in this war. What comes to my mind when I think about 60
000 is twice the enormous amount of people that came with me to Valcartier in
the very beginning. I imagine each and every one of them disappearing from the
face of the earth and how there must be plenty others mourning for them right
now. It’s incomprehensible how so many courageous people probably spent their
last seconds in agony, thinking about their loved ones. This number even includes
many good people that I’ve met in the span of the 4 years of war. In just four
years, the war cost our country 3 million dollars. Sometimes I just wonder about the
countless ways this large sum of money could have been used to improve our
nation and contribute to very important causes. Instead we had to use it to
support the killing of other people while sacrificing our own because we had no
choice in joining the war for Britain’s sake. I cringe knowing that I ignorantly
used to think this war would be some great big adventure when all it turned out
to be was unnecessary bloodshed leaving me with painful memories.
Rest In Peace
—James Carter
(Sources:
(Sources:
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWcosts.htm
- http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/cost-war-e.aspx
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http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/war-impact-e.aspx)
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