LETTER

Dear

See I don’t even know your name!

A 100 years on and we know you as “soldier”

So soldier, you can’t turn around but you can look back.

Was it worth it? Was it worth you and all your family of “soldiers” making the sacrifices you did.

Ok so you can look back but where you stood then you could not look forward.  You didn’t know that as you fought for your family and beliefs that in 20 years your sons and daughters would be doing the same thing you were doing and even now 100 years on we are still in the same war routine.

In your fight, you probably thought you could see, you would look forward to a better, safer world, free, democratic, healthier, and wealthier.

Looking back is that what you see?

You probably looked forward to family, friends and community.

Looking back is that what you now see!

Dear “Solider” I don’t know what your eyes saw then or looking back what they see now, I wish you could speak and tell us.

Yours sincerely

Chic Brodie

Analysis

In England on the hundredth anniversary of World War I, English citizens are invited to reflect and write a letter about Unknown Soldier.

I chose the letter written by Chic Brodie a Scottish member of parliament. This message is particularly interesting because Brodie manages to actualize the Unknown Soldier’s importance.

The writer has himself a conversation with the Unknown Soldier and, thanks to the different question that the author articulates (Was it worth it?, Looking back is that what you see?) the reader is carried to reflect about Unknown Soldier‘s worth.

Indeed is said that only twenty years after World War I there was World War II and also today there are a lot of conflict in so many different countries.

So, in my opinion, the main question that Brodie says is :-did the massive death of these soldiers make sense? Because massacres due to conflicts are a lack of respect for human life.