Group+2+Activist

​Activist were all about peace. They did not like the idea of war at all. They thought it was a wastse of time, resources and life.



.  My name is Cindy Shannon and the date is February 20 1915. I am currently a resident of Huntsville Alabama. I am the mother and wife of soldiers. Both my son Aaron and husband Troy are currently in the war. I personally do not agree with their decisions but I must go along with what they have chosen. For my personal views, I think war is a waste of life. I didn’t raise my son for 21 years for him to just go out and die. There are many reasons why I don’t like the idea of war. One is that there are over 70 million military specialists and of those men over 13 million have died so far and I don’t want to find out how many graves will have to be dug when this war is over. I especially do not want to have to plan one. As I have opinions on this stupid war, I’m sure that our alliance countries France, Russia and Britain, families also have theirs and I am confident that they have some of the same opinions I have. To be more specific, I think war is stupid because who knows how our enemies are progressing weapon wise. Enemy countries could just come in one day and total destroy our homes. And take all of the valuable resources we currently have. Tons of innocent children harmed for our governments mistakes. They could come up with bombs that are able to destroy the world. Another is that we are running out of resources. How are we to know that our allies will through for us? If we make it through this war are they going to make us repay them for what we have already used of their own? Why can’t my son find himself a nice lady to be with and start a family? He may not have time to grow old with some one special. How do you think that they mothers of the sons that my son is killing at this moment feel? I also understand why the country is doing what we are. I see that we did try to stay out of the war but we got dragged in. I see why we did not refuse. Other countries start to get mad with us and no longer will trade with us. If we do not have resources we will go down. But if we do get involved, then we have to use our resources and our countries we trade with lose their resources so over all war is bad.



​" I DIDNT RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER"

For me and many others during world war one, this song was meant to spread peace. It was to show how people were unhappy about friends and loved one going to war and dying. During WW1 I think this song was respected by a lot of activists. I think they might have seen this song as their opinion and very strong view point. If I were a mother during this time period, I would definately not want to have to watch my son/daughter go off to war knowing that there is a very good chance that they aren't going to come back, In conculsion this song has a ery important meaning to me and I think it had some effects on people's point of what was really happening.