Have you ever lost someone close to you? Family friend, neighbor; or possibly your Mom, Dad, Sister or Brother? Now imagine that they are leaving, no way to stop them; and if they do not go, they are thrown in jail or end up a runaway convict. This is the horror of drafting. Drafting is what steals away and breaks apart families and sends them off to war with little to no chance of them coming back home. They will be forced into being trained and punished to suit the necessities of war and destruction, and eight out of ten times, if they come home, they will never be the same. This happed in 1940 October 16; Franklin D. Roosevelt signed off on the draft, which forced hundreds of thousands of American men into the war starting at the age
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You are now a P.O.W. (prisoner of war). You are fed poorly, and treated even worse. You are sent to a concentration camp to do labor for the enemy. You are heavily guarded and even watched while you sleep. Your parents most likely think you are dead and your sister should be about two years of age but you lost track of time. You are now a slave of the enemy and they can and will kill you if you don’t meet their nearly impossible needs. Four months go by and you and the other P.O.W.’s are getting moved to a new camp. However you end everyone else knows you are probably about to be executed, everything you just went through was for nothing; But then you hear a plane and look up, you see an enemy plane and a U.S. plane fly by with the flags of one another’s country trailing behind their planes. Everyone goes wild and scream battle cries that could be heard overseas, the war is over! You get to go home! You meet your family at the airport and everyone is glad to see you as tears and hugs go on around you for everyone else that survived the tragic event. However you are still traumatized you are shaking from the horrors you just went through. You will never be the same again, and never forget the faces of the
You are now a P.O.W. (prisoner of war). You are fed poorly, and treated even worse. You are sent to a concentration camp to do labor for the enemy. You are heavily guarded and even watched while you sleep. Your parents most likely think you are dead and your sister should be about two years of age but you lost track of time. You are now a slave of the enemy and they can and will kill you if you don’t meet their nearly impossible needs. Four months go by and you and the other P.O.W.’s are getting moved to a new camp. However you end everyone else knows you are probably about to be executed, everything you just went through was for nothing; But then you hear a plane and look up, you see an enemy plane and a U.S. plane fly by with the flags of one another’s country trailing behind their planes. Everyone goes wild and scream battle cries that could be heard overseas, the war is over! You get to go home! You meet your family at the airport and everyone is glad to see you as tears and hugs go on around you for everyone else that survived the tragic event. However you are still traumatized you are shaking from the horrors you just went through. You will never be the same again, and never forget the faces of the