Dear Siegfried Sassoon I just wanted to thank you for making me famous I wouldn't be famous if I had not met you in August 1917. Did you ever know why I wanted to write poems?, I wanted to write poems because I believed that the war was being fought for a cause and I wanted to protest and show the civilian conscience what I feel and hopeful the public will see the need for peace and negotiations with my poems, the reason I feel a mixture of anger also when writing this poems and angry at the cruelty and waste of war. Did you know when i was enlist in the army in 1915 I was thinking of running away but no I had to fight for my country and in the same year when I meet you in January 1917 I began my service on the Western Front a terrifying place and apparently after the war when I left I was diagnosed with shellshock and nobody believed me I didn’t have shellshock. Before all of this I started my poetry carrier as teenager and after that I was a teaching assistant after l leaving school I just wanted to be a teaching assistant and after that in 1913 I became a language tutor in France From Wilfred Owen Sorry this letter took so long but Wilfred Owen was killed while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors on 4 November 1918 at the age of 25. Can you please attend his funeral on 18 March in Oswestry, Shropshire which was where he was born.