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War Front Letter Essay

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I hope this letter finds you well. It has been a while since I have last heard from you. Mom and I miss you here in the home front and we are waiting for the day the war finally ends and you get to come home. While thinking about how hard all of you soldiers are fighting for us and our country, we wanted to find things we can do on the home front to make things better for when all of you return from war. I know it must be extremely difficult in the war front, but I want you to know that all of us here are doing everything we can to help our nation win the war and bring our troops home. An important way that we are contributing to the war is by cutting down on the use of consumer goods needed in the war front. We are rationing certain things like gasoline and even shoes until there is a great improvement in the supply after the war. Everyone is trying to save as much as we possibly can by drastically cutting back on how much time we spend driving our automobiles. The gasoline that we are not using is being saved up and sent to the war front. This is the only way that our tanks are moving, our planes are flying, and our landing barges are propelling. If these machines did not have this extra gasoline being sent, our troops over there …show more content…

The government has been encouraging us to buy war bonds lately, which will fix the low material problem in the war front. I hope everyone there can tell the difference in the supply of weapons, food, and machinery that is being sent there. That is the goal of war bonds, to help the cost of materials being bought for the war. All of the money we use to buy the bond with goes toward the price of materials being used in the war, most of them being weapons. The person that buys the bond will profit from the bond in the future. Therefore; the buying of bonds is beneficial to both the war and the person that is buying the

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