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Christopher DellaCamera 10/19/09 Earth Group

MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD Essay

DEAR SAM, Your family needs you back home. We are short on supplies and need as much help as we can get now that your Father is not here. The war you are fighting in is a lost cause, bringing only death and hardship to the people of you country, not freedom. It is now worse than how it was when the British had complete conrol of the Colonies. You need to come back as soon as your enlistment is up and help me and your brother at the tavern.

The War you are fighting in is doing nothing but bad for us in Redding. Our young men are being killied and maimed by the battles you are in. The solidiers are taking all of the supplies and food for themselves, leaving very few for the others. This is making the very old and very young sick. It is also making the items for the Commisionary Store harder for us to buy because of the high prices. It is not doing any good for the people you are trying to save from the British, it is hurting us.

The War for you and the solidiers that you are fighting with is foolish. You are losing about every battle, you are running severly low on supplies, and you are not accomplishing much except getting yourself killed. It seems to be a lost cause in the state your army is in. There is not one good reason that can be backed up with true facts that it is a good thing to stay with the Continentals. The chance you are going to die from disease or malnutrition right now is greater than the chance you are going to die fighting for your Patriot cause.

Over all, the War has no good benefits to any one at this point. So many are dying that there will be no one left in the Colonies to try to free from the British.Women and children are being killed by the war. The war is only turning people into animals after what they have done. How are your small groups of militia going to stop the most powerful nation in the world?

Sam, you are needed at home badly. If you want to stay alive, then come home. Staying with the Rebels is surley a death wish for yourself. I beleive it is wrong that you are putting your Rebellion before your family. It is doing no good. You are needed at the tavern more than you are needed with the troops. FROM, MOTHER