Many wars have occurred in the history of the world. Some of the major ones, especially to the United States of America, are the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and even the War in the Middle East. How did we learn of these wars, see pictures of these wars, see how they affected people? We learned about them through reporters; reporters took pictures of the battles; they wrote about the experiences of fighting, of being in trenches, of being in bombers and other aerial war craft. They took footage of the battles, of the soldiers, of the civilians who were present at the time. In a sense, the reporters were just as much part of the war as the soldier was. Reporters had to be at the front lines, had to be in the airplanes, had to be in the trenches, in the camps. They were in the battles, in the war.
I think that it would have been very hard and trying and terrifying to be a reporter in the trenches with the soldiers. They have the same chance that the soldiers do to be killed. They go through the same thing. They had to go through the mud and water, face the chance of hypothermia, put up with disease, bad food, dirty water, and the terrors of war. The reporters had to witness everything. They had to write about what was happening. They would witness death, witness sickness, witness gun wounds, grenade wounds, and witness the horror of war. They were not only watching soldiers fight and die; they were recording it for others to see, for others to hear about. Though they might not have regularly fought--even though some of them probably did to save their lives--they were still part of the war. They were the eyes and ears of the people back home. This responsibility must have been very trying, frustrating, a drain on their spirit and energy.
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