Enlistment

On the day of June,27,1914 the Canadian military enlisting men for a war in Europe they said it was something of  honour and glory and respect but as I soon found out it was nothing of the sort, but that is besides the point. While pondering  the decision to join the army I was confounded by the fact that my fellow relatives and friends had joined the war effort despite them being under the legal age, their reasons were varied from "It is a mans duty to be fighting this war" and "if I don't fight this war then who will". It were these very same statements which in the end enforced my decision to join the army,and at the same time my familly was very short on the money and could use some money to pay off some of the bills. I never told my mother that I was leaving because she was always telling me to keep away from the war even though I felt likeit was my duty as a man to be fighting this war. Shortly after I went to the enlistment station by my school, I was told that I would first be with the a Infantry unit consisting of 6 men and that I was with the twenty first infantry battalion.They told me I was going to be sent off to Europe on July,19,1914. But first I had to sty at a training camp which was at the enlistment station the training there was very challenging we had crawl under barbed wire and learn  how to shoot rifles it may have been tough but it gave me a sense of duty just like the people back at home used to talk about how the war is about honour and respect. But as I soon found out the reality was much farther from the truth than anyone could have imagined.