My War Speech

In Room Six we have been learning how to write speeches. We had to chose a specific topic, mine was World War 1. What I found really hard was when we had to pronounce all the words right and actually saying the speech in front of people. Some people who were confident in talking in front of people were able to put there names up for Speech Board. Speech Board is an event where you share your speech with slideshows and props in front of real judges! I was one of the people who did it. After we did the speech they rated us on ow we presented it. The different awards were a disqalification, pass, commended, highly commended and distinction. One of our students at Awahono school was rated a  distinction which is the highest rating and most of the others where rated highly commended or commended. here is my World War 1 speech!  

I hear people say… If we didn’t have this war we wouldn’t have any of the things we have now. but I just don’t understand, Why have all this technology when you could have saved the lives of thousands. even if some did survive the horror they remember from war would be with them until the end.

 This is how it all started out. It was the one time that THE GREAT WAR could've been stopped. So, there was this guy who was named Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and he was the next in line for the Austo-Hungarin throne, but I think there was some people like Gavrilo Princip who were really really jealous, like deadly jealous. So, on 28 of June 1914 when that guy and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were riding in one of those convertible carriages with no roof, There was an assassination. And sadly The Duchess of Hohenberg and Archduke Franz Ferdinand died, when they were shot to death by.. Yep, you guessed! Gavrilo Princip the really jealous guy. So. after that he was in prison for twenty long years which he obviously deserved and basically everything went downhill from that. And that was how a Deadly Deadly war started.

 If you were a soldier that guilty feeling would not go away, knowing you killed and slaughtered so many people.. So many innocent people. You would never forgive yourself. A warrior you were but now just a body in the field once brave and bold but now broken. When you signed up you thought it would be fun, no life or death situations, you thought it would just be a game but no, no war is much different from that. Sometimes, a soldier might just knock on your door saying that you must die, and you can’t hide because there is nowhere to go, you just have to accept your fate. You know your innocent but they don’t know that and I don’t think they will believe you because they just want to get it over and done with, maybe there's somewhere else they need to be, for example: on the battlefield shooting bullets through the enemies heads. Yep, they’ve got to do that. For some reason!

 The harsh reality they had to live in back then would have been gruesome and deadly. And I know I wouldn’t like to be in that situation. But I am going to make sure that there is not any more wars like that in the future.