Summary
Based in Rome, War is beginning in a train station, a large woman followed by her thin husband board on the train. The woman is disheveled mentally and begins to look for some hope in the other passengers. Her husband tries to stop the help by saying that he can handle it, when he attempts to comfort his wife she just covers her face with the fur coat she has on. He says the other passengers should feel pity for the woman because their 20 year old son was drafted to war, 20 years of struggle and love to almost certainly never seeing him again. They received the letter and signed saying he's not leaving in six months, but in response the next letter says he is to depart in three days. This does not affect the passengers since they've all somehow been affected by war. One man says they should feel privileged because his son was sent day one of the war, sent back wounded twice and sent right back to the front. The husband responds with the fact that he's an only child, the man simply says "You may spoil your son with excessive attentions but you cannot love."
Music
1. Starving For Friends: Slaves ( https://youtu.be/ql7gHUHEgrw )
This would be a song for the soldiers because this song is about missing your friends and needing someone. "I'll be in the rain, I'll swim and sink for you." is the lyrics in the song talking about how he would go through anything to get his friends back. How this correlates to the story is the fact that when in war, you'd have a 'every man for himself' deal and protect the ones you know. So if in war and the son happened to be good friends with another soldier, this song would be for the dead son from the soldier because friends are scarce when in war.
2. The Phoenix Reborn: Crown The Empire ( https://youtu.be/DX779UNNoe8?t=3m33s ) ( https://youtu.be/DX779UNNoe8?t=4m30s )
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crowntheempire/thephoenixreborn.html
The Phoenix Reborn is about the start of a revolution and getting the feeling before a fight. The song fits perfectly with this shirt story because World War 1 in Italy is fearful because young adults are being drafted for a war they don't want to serve and they're getting killed. This song is about war and the adrenaline of fighting and simultaneously preparing your goodbyes and awaiting almost certain death on the war grounds. The ending war audio is more or likely what they heard cannons, gunshots, screams and cries for help, metal being shot through like paper and hundreds of men running towards you. What's significant about this audio is there is the sound of the soldier running then getting shot and what seems to be training drills, because of the drums and gun shots in unison and yelled commands.
3. Shadow Moses: Bring Me The Horizon https://youtu.be/_pc-kF2ifl4 )
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bringmethehorizon/shadowmoses.html
"Can you tell from the look in our eyes? We're going nowhere. We live our lives like we're ready to die." Those lyrics portray the story in a great way because, in war you get thousands and sometimes millions of deaths, you get more despair than victory. In war you live your life almost certain that day is your last day and that you're going to spend it shooting other humans who got there probably the same way you did. "I thought I buried you, and covered the tracks." Although in the song they mean this in a different meaning, for the short story this is relevant because this could mean that they buried their lives in war and covered their tracks, meaning they have no life outside a 24/7 forced job.
4. Migraine: twenty one pilots ( https://youtu.be/P1N2iBiICtA?t=23s ) ( https://youtu.be/P1N2iBiICtA?t=1m57s )
This song could be a song from the father sitting in the train arguing with the woman about how his son didn't care if he died at the front. This song is about no matter how hard the fight and how frustrated you got, don't mind it because you got this far and you shouldn't give up now. This relates to the father because no matter how mad he gets about self-centered people who think their problems are the worst, he can look back and realize how far he came along with life knowing his son was dead. He's contemplated suicide on a few occasions because he said there was nothing to live for after he got the death letter.
5. Closed Eyes Still Look Forward: Chiodos ( https://youtu.be/9KiJyUTJGWk )
"When you know that you finally made it, you make your way back home." This fits into the story because after you've made it to the end of the war and you survived you go back home and live your normal life. "You're all alone out here." Also fits because to go from thousands of bullets running by your face and hundreds of cannonballs being shot into the sky not knowing where they're landing then going to a normal, calm life. No one can help you there, they weren't there to experience it, they couldn't experience the countless of witnessed deaths.
This would be a song for the soldiers because this song is about missing your friends and needing someone. "I'll be in the rain, I'll swim and sink for you." is the lyrics in the song talking about how he would go through anything to get his friends back. How this correlates to the story is the fact that when in war, you'd have a 'every man for himself' deal and protect the ones you know. So if in war and the son happened to be good friends with another soldier, this song would be for the dead son from the soldier because friends are scarce when in war.
2. The Phoenix Reborn: Crown The Empire ( https://youtu.be/DX779UNNoe8?t=3m33s ) ( https://youtu.be/DX779UNNoe8?t=4m30s )
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crowntheempire/thephoenixreborn.html
The Phoenix Reborn is about the start of a revolution and getting the feeling before a fight. The song fits perfectly with this shirt story because World War 1 in Italy is fearful because young adults are being drafted for a war they don't want to serve and they're getting killed. This song is about war and the adrenaline of fighting and simultaneously preparing your goodbyes and awaiting almost certain death on the war grounds. The ending war audio is more or likely what they heard cannons, gunshots, screams and cries for help, metal being shot through like paper and hundreds of men running towards you. What's significant about this audio is there is the sound of the soldier running then getting shot and what seems to be training drills, because of the drums and gun shots in unison and yelled commands.
3. Shadow Moses: Bring Me The Horizon https://youtu.be/_pc-kF2ifl4 )
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bringmethehorizon/shadowmoses.html
"Can you tell from the look in our eyes? We're going nowhere. We live our lives like we're ready to die." Those lyrics portray the story in a great way because, in war you get thousands and sometimes millions of deaths, you get more despair than victory. In war you live your life almost certain that day is your last day and that you're going to spend it shooting other humans who got there probably the same way you did. "I thought I buried you, and covered the tracks." Although in the song they mean this in a different meaning, for the short story this is relevant because this could mean that they buried their lives in war and covered their tracks, meaning they have no life outside a 24/7 forced job.
4. Migraine: twenty one pilots ( https://youtu.be/P1N2iBiICtA?t=23s ) ( https://youtu.be/P1N2iBiICtA?t=1m57s )
This song could be a song from the father sitting in the train arguing with the woman about how his son didn't care if he died at the front. This song is about no matter how hard the fight and how frustrated you got, don't mind it because you got this far and you shouldn't give up now. This relates to the father because no matter how mad he gets about self-centered people who think their problems are the worst, he can look back and realize how far he came along with life knowing his son was dead. He's contemplated suicide on a few occasions because he said there was nothing to live for after he got the death letter.
5. Closed Eyes Still Look Forward: Chiodos ( https://youtu.be/9KiJyUTJGWk )
"When you know that you finally made it, you make your way back home." This fits into the story because after you've made it to the end of the war and you survived you go back home and live your normal life. "You're all alone out here." Also fits because to go from thousands of bullets running by your face and hundreds of cannonballs being shot into the sky not knowing where they're landing then going to a normal, calm life. No one can help you there, they weren't there to experience it, they couldn't experience the countless of witnessed deaths.
Time Capsule
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This is a postcard sent from a soldier to his family in 1917, the red stamp is in Italian, "Citizens and Family are an army only." The reproduction and individual sale of these such postcards are illegal and will have consequences. This was a global postcard, hinted so by the array of flags on the right hand side of the card. This type of postcard was specifically and mainly used for military purposes. Only because the black circle stamp with the words "Posta Militare" meaning "By Army." This stamp gave the postcard much more importance, the words are faded and illegible
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This is an image of the dictator Mussolini fighting in World War 1, at the end of the war in 1918 600,000 Italians were dead, 950,000 were wounded and 250,000 were permanently crippled. By 1918, Italy's unemployment rate was extremely high along with their inflation. After being ignored by the "Big Three" which were Wilson of America, Lloyd George of Britain and Clemenceau of France, Italy got a small piece from Versailles and felt humiliated. They felt betrayed and that the Big Three was dishonest and disloyal, especially after Italy fought on the Allies and had thousands die.
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This is a German bullet used in World War 1. The darker color at the end of the bullet is the steel core, it's used to create a boat tail There was a special production of bullets considered the K bullet. These bullets, with a hardened steel core, they can go a much longer range such as 100 yards. The problem with both types of bullets was the extra force they inflicted on the gun, especially since the rifle used wasn't originally designed for K bullets. As a result, the rifles sometimes jammed or malfunctioned, or worse, burst, injuring or killing the soldier behind the gun or other soldiers around.