My ANZAC writing to a made up Anzac soldier at Gallipoli

Dear Jack

How is it at war, some men come home with no legs

from shells being dropped next to them and others

come back in stretchers with no arms or are all bloody from being shot?

What are the living conditions like in Gallipoli?

What are you doing? Shooting Turks I hope and not getting yourself killed.

Is everything alright? Did you land In the right place

and are you winning the battle to force the Turks out of the war?

If you don’t want to shoot them you’re very noble

but don’t let your commanding officer know that you’re a

deserter because even we know what happens to soldiers who desert,

they get shot don’t they? Is everything going ok we are not

losing too badly are we or are we winning and those people,

the one that have no legs are just unlucky?

Anyway everyone here is great, well not really most of us

are starving because we have to contribute to the war effort

and we never know when it will end. 

Hope you don’t die 

Wish you were here.

Isaac

Dear little brother Isaac

Things are terrible here. We landed 2km’s away from our original landing spot.

Quite a lot of us died on the first day.

For most of the poor lads this was the first combat experience.

We have very little food, the weather is terrible, it's flooding our trenches.

The stench of dead people is terrible, basically the whole place
is a hell hole with diseases everywhere and very little water,

no point in making friends because they quite possibly will get shot the next day.

Everyone says soon we’ll get them but they just keep something back.

You shoot one, two more come back.

It’s like a damn hydra, but to tell you a secret we’re losing at Gallipoli

but it’s incredibly hard to make the general see sense,

until his commanding officer tells him we won’t win

(which is when everyone is dead) he won’t surrender.

Yeah I have seen it happen occasionally,

a soldier will make a break to the water or won’t shoot

anyone and throws his gun away and either the Turks

or the general will shoot him right there, I don’t really know why they do it,

might be they’ve gone mad or just don’t want to do this anymore.

No everyone is getting shot at, it’s not like we're making big advancements,

we're not really moving at all.

Hope I don’t die 

Don’t wish you were here 

Jack

 If this wasn’t a fake letter this

whole letter would have been rewritten to

make the people think everything was ok.