May 1st 1940

7 3 0
                                    

I got some bad news, we are launching our attack in about 2 weeks. Bob's injury is okay now, but not fully recovered. Still he was forced to go. Camp Alpha is 2-3 miles away and over the past months, we have been digging trenches around Colditz, hard work just keeps pouring in when your a soldier. I'm quite scared and very sad that we have to go that soon. I'm writing my last letter back to my family in case something happens, Bob is also writing his. before the war started, Bob weren't even married, he proposed to his girlfriend, and she accepted. But before they could get married, Bob was forced to war and he promised to come back and marry her but he's afraid that he won't come back, he's scared. Every night since we reached camp Alpha, he couldn't get a good night sleep, he saw death and destruction, he had nightmares and it has been a few months already, a few months of him crying in fear wanting to get back home. I'm sure that he's not the only one, i'm scared, i want to run but i can't, war can take anything from you, your hope, your family, your home, anything, at anytime. War is like a disease, it goes by, and destroying everything in its path, hope and the desire to live, it's nothing in front of war. The only cure is peace and justice.......

1939 - 1945 Where stories live. Discover now