Trench Diary Assignment 5th August 1914 Dear Diary, I think I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself, I was born in 1889, in London. I was brought up in a middle class family. My mother would do the housework and I would help her in my free time. My father worked in a factory. As a teenager I loved to study and learn; my ambition was to become a teacher or a doctor. I'm …showed first 75 words of 2480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2480 total…would then remember this poem: They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. I think it's marvelous, because that's just how it is. You imagine them as they were then - not as they would be now - young, and in their prime, and never grown old.