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Ryan Carboni Earth 10/16/08 My Brother Sam is Dead Writing Prompt

Dear Sam, I know it is important for you to continue fighting in this war, but our family cannot afford the loss of another member. After Father has been gone, we have been struggling to make buisness at this tavern since father has left. Even though we ourselves aren't starving, we are struggiling to scrape by to keep the tavern going. It is just because there is no food to go around and two people cannot work a whole tavern. Now, Sam, once your enlistment is up, come back home. Don't be pig-headed and continue to fight, you are 16 and not even fully an adult. Now if you were older I would allow you to stay and fight, but what if you came home. Finding the tavern derlict and dilapitated, as your family has starved to death as they could not feed thereselves because it was too much for them to work the tavern. Our cattle is having the threat of being stolen by roguish bandits because we have no arms to scare them off, what if the musket never came back and all our cattle is gone becaue the rifle is laying down next to your bloodied corpse in a field.

Timis also starting to get involved in the war, trying to be a messenger and ring bells if troops start to come. He took off from Father's loyalist's ideals and decided to side with the British. Father DID affiliate himself with the British, but he did not become a radical and start to fight. Now once your enlistment is up, come back home. If Tim gets hanged as a spy for carrying messages, I will not be able to run the tavern by myself and I may starve. So how will you feel to come home to a dilapitated tavern with the rest of the meeker family dead.

Now what if your rebellion becomes crushed? you will be hanged by the British and they will hunt us down as they will think we are members of the resistence.

Now Sam, don't get this wrong I do support you descion of being a soldier, but remember that the duty to your family comes first than to your country.