Emily's question
If you got injured in the war and only had a couple days to live, would you rather spend it with your family, or the soldiers who were protecting you, and fighting side by side with you.
History Quotes
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
4 comments:
I would rather stay with the soldiers who I fought by and became friends with. I wouldn't want to seem weak by just ducking out and not sticking in it to the end. Also, it would be too difficult to deal with all of the emotions of seeing your family for the last time in your life. The soldiers could just leave you be or stay by your side so, in them leaving, you can ponder your thoughts. You can't ask your family to leave your side when you are about to die. Besides, I would want to die a soldiers' death
I would go to my family. They are the poeple that raised me and loved me. But it would be really hard seeing the emotions as your dying. Im not really sure- that's a hard question and I would probably know the answer once I'm dying(no duh).
I don't think I would do either. I would ask to be sent to the dead room so I wouldn't give my family or my fellow soldiers the pain of losing a friend.
I would rather spend it with my family because I have known and loved my family longer than I have ever known anyone else, and they are the ones who have loved me all of my life and taught me all I know about being a good person.
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