The Life Long Effect of Sadness After A War

War is the main piece of sadness that everyone feels in their lives because it can affect them in so many different ways. We can lose our family members, our friends, and we can also lose our homes. War can take away everything from ourselves and from all those soldiers who laid their lives on the ground on the way to Berlin. In this short story, we read about the perspective of a journalist walking across the beaches of Normandy after D-day. The soldiers who fought on those beach’s knowing well before that they might never make it back, are some of the bravest people out there, knowing that they dare to step out for an entire country, which shows who they truly are. Losing a soul like that really should bring sadness to our entire country. The people who are probably most affected by these casualties are the families of these soldiers, they now know that they will never be able to see their loved ones ever again, simply because they were brave enough to step in line and be the change the world needed during those dark times. When the soldier described the paper and pen that was left on the beach, you can only imagine the letters and the happiness that paper and pen would have brought, but now those papers are only surrounded by the present sadness that is around.

In the end, war causes more pain to whoever takes part in it. The lives lost on the beach of Normandy are lives that we will never get back. I hope the world never has to go through war again because another journalist walking around describing the aftermath of a war-torn area would be even more devastating than we think. The short story “On The Road to Berlin,’ is not meant to be a story that fills an individual up with sadness, rather it is meant to be an informative one that describes an area after an event. But the story gives more sadness than anyone can believe because it just shows us how many people gave up their lives for us. The sadness is more than anyone can take because we are more affected than we all believe.