Even though the war in Iraq is over, we are printing these letters from
students in an English class in Gymnasium Wandlitz in Germany. Maybe the letters
will help our readers understand why many people in Europe were against the
war. The first letter (on the right) is from Mrs. Ute Nowak, an English teacher.
The other letters are from her students.
- Silver International
War broke out last night and out students and
teachers are confused and concerned. We feel so sorry for all victims on the
sides. Don’t forget we Germans are not against the American people, just
against the war. Germany has started two world wars and has lost them. In my
generation (I’m 34 years old) many people don’t know their grandfathers
because they were killed in World War II. One of my grandfathers was shot down,
too, during that war. My other surviving grandfather lost his legs. My husband’s
grandfather lost his eye. In our history lessons students learn about these
two world wars. They see films with real war scenes from that time. Knowing
our historical and political background we hope that you will understand our
letters that my students wrote exactly after the beginning of the war in Iraq.
Love and peace,
Mrs. Nowak
We were shocked when we heard about the beginning
of the war. All of us know the problems between American and the Iraq, but we
had not expected something like that. What was the main reason for this terrible
war? Oil, revenge, or the dictatorship? So many people have to die. Not only
the terrorists also civilians like children. It’s nonsense that 400,000
Allies fight against a million Iraqis. Nobody thinks about the following consequenc!
There are so many chemical or nuclear bombs, so all of us could die. We have
fear. We don’t know what would happen in the future.
War is not the answer!
Christin, Sascha, Sebastian, and Marie
It’s horrible that the war has begun. Innocent
people must suffer or die. We are so sad. We are so shocked that Bush is so
“cold.” We hope that the war is over before more people must suffer
and the world economy breaks asunder.
Daniel, Pia, and Lisa
The war is terrible for us and for the world,
because Saddam Hussein does not only attack Americans but the whole world. The
people of Berlin and Brandenburg go to a demonstration everyday because we are
in the year that the third world war might come. We are so disappointed about
the president of America because he is not interested in the opinions of the
people in the world.
Lisa, Maja, and Dominique
We think that the war is not the answer for the
problems. Innocent people have to die. That’s right that Saddam Hussein
must be killed, but there are other solutions. We hope that the war will end
soon.
Steffan, Nicole, Vivien, and Linda
It’s horrible! The war has started and we
can’t do anything to stop it, to stop the president Bush. So many innocent
people have to die, children, women, men. We are very sad and we can’t
say anything more to express our thoughts. Hope you are fine.
Undine, Josephine, Sabine, and Isabelle
We all are very shocked about the things, which
have happened. We don’t understand why George W. Bush decided to fight.
We understand that the attack of the 9/11 was very terrible but is this reason
to kill more not guilty people, for example babies, children, and parents. Why
didn’t he think about the opinion of so many demonstrating people in the
whole world? At the end who are the losers? We hope the war will be stopped
as quickly as possible and without so many dead people.
Josephine, Anica, and Ariane
We are all so shocked about the attacks on Iraq.
At first we want to say how sympatric we are with the people on Iraq and in
America, which are against the war. Now you know that we cannot say something
good about the bomb attacks on Baghdad.
Robert, Marcus, and Sven
Dear Montgomery Blair High School Students,
We would like to show our feelings about the war
on Iraq. For us it is important to say we are against this was. Because of the
news on TV, we are well informed about the situation. In the school we often
talked about George W. Bush’s reasons to attack Iraq, but we did not find
a just one to cause any innocent people to die.
The German government decided to not take part
in this war. But this absolutely does not mean that German people tolerate what
Saddam Hussein did and does in many ways. We are neutral.
So we just hope this war will end as soon as possible
and there will not be too many victims.
Julia, Marlit, and Wiebke
