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A couple of months ago we visited with school the environment of Ypres and the ‘In Flanders Fiels’ museum. This is an interactive museum which was very impressive. The Museum expressed well the horrible aspect of war, namely the thousands of dead and the miserable situations in the trenches. A thing that a lot of people don’t know is that World War I is also been fought on see. On year before war started, Germany consolidated his fleet by investing much in it. The Britons were still stronger but they feeled threathened. At 1 november or 8 december 1914 for example died a lot of Britsh and German soldiers on see. A ship that has been very important during World War I is the U-boot, a submarine. At 7 May 1915, German U-boot layed up a passenger-ship, almost 1189 citizens died, under others Americans. America almost declared war on Germany but just in time, the German commander Wilhelm II interdicted the attack of passenger-ships. In contrast to ashore, where the hostile soldiers where only about 100 metres alienated, the sailors saw eachother rarely.

A thing that hampered the war was the bad communication between the front and the commanders. It was miserable because of broken cables, lightflashes were impossible in consequence of the guns, pigeons couldn’t fly against the wind and dogs lost the way or started to fight. The only way to communicate thoroughly was telecommunication. Nevertheless this was only invented a couple of years ago so it wasn’t good develop yet.

We also maked a trip around Ypres with Piet Chielens, one of the custodians of the museum. He knew almost everything about the environment and took us to the nicest places. We viseted a lot of graveyards, wherby I got a good image of the amounts of deads. A ‘funny’ thing about this graveyards is the fact that the German graves had to lay down because they lost while the other graves were all upright. We also visited The Essex Farm Cementary. This is the place where John McRae was the major of the dressing-station. He digged himself in the back of the channeldike where he was relativly save for the enemy’s bombs or gas-attacks. John McRae is the autor of the well-known poem In Flanders Field. He wrote this poem after the death of a son of a good friend. In this poem he urges the Candadian boys join the army. This is for us maybe an anticlimax but we have to bear in mind that the poem is written in 1915, the beginning of the war and then the soldiers were still patriotic and heroic. This poem is an exeption because the majority of the poems we have read in the lessons were not that patriotic and heroic. ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ from Wilfred Owen which descripbes a gas-attack is very touching.

The 11th of november 1918 is the redeemd day. The Britsh prime minister declared that the ‘most horrible and cruel war of mankind had ended’ He also hoped that is the War was been a lesson for all and that it could be the last war in history. In all totalling, 9 milions soldiers died, whereof 1 million at the Ypres Salient. The region was marked forever and now it still is, the farmers for example still find at regular base splinters of bombs. Also our language is full of phrases such as ‘entrenched attitudes.’

I hoped you learned something about war in this letter and that you understand what a hoorible thing war is.

Wat bedoel je met "with school" in de eerste zin?

In opdracht van de school?
Met klasgenoten?
Met alle leerlingen van de hele school?

felt

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his---> its (een land is geen persoon in het Engels)

Ik zou ervan maken: A couple of months ago my classmates and I visited the environment of Ypres [..] This is a very impressive interactive museum.


The Museum expressed the horrible aspect of war well, mainly (wat bedoel je met namely? namelijk?) [..]

One thing a lot of people don't know, is that the First World War has also been fought on sea. One year before the war started, Germany consolidated its fleet..

Felt, idd

For example; on November 1st or December 8th, a lot of British and German soldiers died on sea.


A ship that has been very important during World War I is the U-boat , a submarine. Under others is volgens mij niet goed maar ik weet even geen beter woord ervoor.

America almost declared war to Germany but just in time, the German commander Wilhelm II interdicted the attack of passenger-ships. In contrast to ashore, where the hostile soldiers where only about 100 metres alienated, the sailors saw eachother rarely.

A thing that hampered the war was the bad communication between the front and the commanders. It was miserable because of broken cables; lightflashes were impossible in consequence of the guns, pigeons couldn’t fly against the wind and dogs lost the way or started to fight. The only way to communicate thoroughly was through telecommunication. Nevertheless this was only invented a couple of years ago so it wasn’t well developed yet.

We also made a trip around Ypres with Piet Chielens, one of the custodians of the museum. He knew almost everything about the environment and showed us the nicest places. We viseted a lot of graveyards, wherby I got a good image of the amounts of deads. A ‘funny’ thing about this graveyards is the fact that the German graves had to lay down because they lost while the other graves were all upright. We also visited The Essex Farm Cementary. This is the place where John McRae was the major of the dressing-station. He dug? himself in the back of the channeldike where he was relativly save for the enemy’s bombs or gas-attacks. John McRae is the autor of the well-known poem In Flanders Field. He wrote this poem after the death of the son of a good friend. In this poem he urges the Candadian boysto join the army. This might me an anticlimax for us, but we have to bear in mind that the poem is written in 1915, when the war had just begun and at that time the soldiers were still patriotic and heroic. This poem is an exeption because the majority of the poems we have read in class were not that patriotic and heroic. ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ from Wilfred Owen which describes a gas-attack is very touching.

The 11th of november 1918 is the redeemd??? day. The Britsh Prime-Minister declared that the ‘most horrible and cruel war of mankind had ended’ He also hoped that this War had been a lesson to all and that it might have been the last war in history. In total , 9 million soldiers died, whereof 1 million at the Ypres Salient. The region was marked forever and now it still is, the farmers for example still find splinters of bombs at regular base . Our language is still full of phrases such as ‘entrenched attitudes.’

I hope you have learned something about war in this letter and that you understand what a horrible thing war is.