What would the world do nowadays without texting, facebook, email, and all these new technologies?! I admit, I'd die if I didnt have a phone, or wasnt able to log in on facebook for a whole day. But now that im thinking about it, what would happen to me if I was a soldier during World War I? Id have to wait weeeeks just to get a letter.. A LETTER! I get mad if a person doesnt text back quickly, HOW ABOUT WAITING FOR WEEKS?! It isnt easy ..
Many soldiers wrote to their wives, parents, family, and friends to ask how they're doing and assure that they were fine out there in war, but when they sent those letters, they had to wait for weeks to get back a letter, IF they were still alive .. Anything can happen during those two weeks. A family member might recieve a letter from one of the soldiers and then the next day he could be gone.
Waiting is very agonizing and frustrating, so soldiers werent really happy about that at that time and did bother them. Nowadays, you can just easily just lift up the phone and call a loved one and reassure them that you are safe.
An example of one of those letters is a letter sent by a Mr. Adams to his aunt wishing her a Merry Christmas and wishing he was there at the time. It must have been really hard for those soldiers because they couldnt be there physically and had to share their wishes through a letter.
Ironic, because now people just wish a person a Merry Christmas just by simplytexting them or even by writing on their wall .. ha, what a great effect technology has on life now.
