War Story
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Toby Leckie GCSE ENGLISH COURSEWORK: PERSONAL WRITING War Story "What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack, When the girls line up the street Shouting their love to the lads to come back From the foe they rushed to beat?" As I sat in English Study, these words kissed upon my juvenile ears. The voice was that of my school friend Albert as he read the first lines of Fall In to my classmates. As I heard more and more of the poem, I felt stronger and stronger about seriously signing up to fight in the Somme. I could imagine all the respect and admiration I would receive when I come back, especially from the girls! After school, I rushed back home to tell my mother about how much I wanted to join Britain in the war. "I don't think you should go," remarked my mother, "many of my friends' husbands...


