Why Should Young Kids Have to Go To War

Last week and for the past 3 weeks we have been focusing on our writing and our topic was about ANZAC and this was Mine

Why should young kids have to go to war

How Would your feel to be told from when your were little if your that your going to the war when your got older?  How would your feel to know that there’s a war going on around you and you’re not getting to live your life at a young age and having to kill people to win the war for your country? How would that make your feel?

I strongly believe teenagers should not have gone to war. Firstly,  young People don’t know how to fight and could get killed straight away. Secondly, they are too young to go and should be living their lives and spending more time with their family. Finally, young people did not know what to expect and it could damage their mental health.

Firstly, young people don't know how to fight and could get killed straight away. Do you know how to fight?  What would happen if you got injured or hurt? How horrible would that be, even having to hurt people or kill someone? That would make you feel horrible! If you don’t know how to fight in a war and if you didn't get training you could get killed straight away or injured. It would be very painful or you could die too. What if they didn’t know how to fight or even defend themselves? So when someone tried to hurt them or kill them what would they do? Over 4000 men and women who went to war were teenagers. what training do you think they got? Very little!

Secondly, they are to young to go and should be living their lives and spending more time with their family.  How would you feel to have to go to war when you're young and not be able to live your life even though you're young? When you turned 16 you had to go to war, often forced to like a man.Mahuta  was forced to go to war, he didn’t have a choice. He was told to go to war or be sent to jail. It was not fair, I know I would like to live my life before I went to the war instead of going to war as soon as I turn 16.  How would that make your feel? Would you like to spend the time with your family rather than fighting in a war? And if they didn’t need to go they would be told to go to jail and would stay their or if they got taken to jail straight away and not have a another chance to do anything .

Finally, young people did not know what to expect and it damaged their mental health. Do your think they would have wanted to go to war to see all the dead bodies and have to kill people and all of those horrible things? How would that make you feel to do that? Most men thought that going to war was going to be a awesome experience. You got to travel the world and go to different places. But, it’s really not that glorified.  Many soldiers ended up with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and could not deal with everything they saw and did. And even after the war was over, when the men and women were back home, they would still be terrified and scarred by what they saw in the war.

Would you have like to have gone to war? I am strongly against teenagers going to war! Young people don't know how to fight  and could get killed straight away. They are too young to go and should be living their lives and spending more time with their family, and young people did not know what to expect and it damaged their mental health.

By Tahlya