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"Mein vater'..." 14th March, 1915
I'm sorry... I'm sorry for you and mother for what I have done. I was blinded by the way of patriotism and victory for
the fatherland. I believed in everything I was told because of how gullible I was, how ignorant I was, and how arrogant
I was to you and mother. I broken both of your hearts, and spatted a vile argument to the two of you as the last thing
I ever said before leaving for training. My father, I now only think of your welting eyes every night from the pain I have inflicted
on you that time of sheer anguish. Now I am left with the guilt of neglecting the only things I loved, I brought pain on the two
people in the world I can't ever think to live without. I want to come home, but I don't believe I will ever get that chance
ever again, to hear your voice and to wake up in the morning from mother's tender gentle tone. I write, father, because I am
sure that this will be the last time I will ever write again for the next morning will be the time for me to go into the depths
of man made hell that we are capable of creating. I do not believe in myself that I will come out of this alive, everyone else
that I knew of from the time of school are either dead or so broken that they face our own guns back home. My father, I wish I
can take everything, return back home and never think of war again, and only think of the love you two have given me through
my childhood. My hand trembles even as I write this, but I love you my father and mother too, and whatever happens tomorrow is
what is set in place only by God. Kiss mother for me and have mother hug you... for me.
"Dein Sohn, Peter."
This letter would not make it past censorship in Germany and would never reach to his parents. Peter Munziger would die the next
day after having sent this letter in an attempted assault through the Entente lines in the First battle of Champagne.
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is this horrible compression intended?
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