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(Left leg first, walk and sing) 

Men at war-oooooor 
Men at war-oooooor 
Late at night when you're sleeping UDT's come a creeping 
All aro-ooooound, A creeping all around, ​HEY!  
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Nick:​ About face!  
1...2...3...Everybody turns around  
Privates what is the ​definition of Militarism​?  
 
Everyone:​ ​Militarism is the view that the building of military strength is of extreme 
importance sir. 
 
Nick: ​Militarism is.. 
 
Zaira & Celina: ​HURTFUL 
 
Nick: ​Militarism is... 
 
Gaby & Jacky: ​NECESSARY 
 
Nick: ​At Ease, soldiers.  
(Everyone turn around except Jonny Maria and Nick) 
 
Nick:​ Prior to World War I 
​New weaponry​ ​was produced, more men were ​enlisted,​ new tactics and strategies were 
formed. The war was ​inevitable​.  
 
Jonny: ​Are we Afraid?  
 
Everyone​: ​NO SIR!   
 
Maria: ​“All Quiet on the Western Front,” by Erich Maria Remarque.   
 
Jonny: “​The idea of authority was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more 
humane wisdom. The first death we saw shattered this belief. They might of trained us but 
nothing could've prepared us mentally for the horrors of the war.” 
 

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Maria: ​During world war one, most if not all political figures were heavily influenced by 
military. This is what lead to the spending of the war and the country's mentality. 
 
Nick: ​Out of the 65 million who were trained for battle a few soldiers would get 13 months of 
basic training most men found themselves on the front line after just​ ​4​ ​week.  
● Everyone hold up 4 fingers on number 4. 
 
Jonny:​ “With a pack and rifle I have had to practise on a wet soft newly ploughed field the 
“Prepare to advance, advance goddamnit!” And the “Lie down!” 
Wait March Duck 
 
Maria: “​We were all at once terribly alone; ​and alone we must see it through.”  
(Gaby, Maria, Zaira knee down) 
 
 
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(Jonathan): Attention!  
 
Maria gets pushed out, move to the left corner 
Maria:​ ​Counter attack​, a Poem written by Siegfried Sassoon 
(​We’re all squished together) 
Gaby gets pushed out, move to the right corner 
Gaby: ​Of ​course, they started with five-nines  
Traversing, sure as fate, and never a dud.  
Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst  
Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, 
While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. 
Jacky gets pushed out, move to the left corner 
Jacky: ​He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear, 
Sick for escape,—loathing the strangled horror 
And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead. 
An officer came blundering down the trench: 
“Stand-to and man the fire step!” On he went … 
Gasping and bawling, “Fire-step ... counter-attack!” 
Celina gets pushed out, move to the right corner 
Celina: ​Then the haze lifted. ​Bombing on the right 
Down the old sap: ​machine-guns on the left; 
And stumbling figures looming out in front. 

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“O Christ, they’re coming at us!”​ Bullets spat, 
And he remembered his rifle ... rapid fire … 
And started blazing wildly ... then a ​BANG! 
(We all say BANG and fall back) 
Zaira gets pushed out, move to the left corner 
Zaira: ​Crumpled and spun him sideways, knocked him out 
To grunt and wriggle: none heeded him; he choked 
And fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom, 
Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans .. 
Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned, 
Everyone: ​Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed. 
 
III 
Maria​: March!  
(Wait a few seconds before proceeding)  
Step forward in pairs 
Celina & Jacky: ​Kōshin 
 
Step forward in pairs 
Zaira & Gaby:​ Marzo 
 
Step forward in pairs 
Nick & Jonny:​ März 
 
Step forward in pairs 
Maria:​ Hault! Teishi! Arresto!  
 
(Everyone step back ​except Maria​) 
Maria: ​The three axis powers;  
 
Jonny and Nick:​ ​Germany 
 
Gaby and Ziara:​ ​Italy 
 
Jacky and Celina:​ ​Japan 
 
Maria: ​Allied in 1940.. Sharing militaristic, national, and expansionist goals. They were angry 
with the outcome of the treaty of Versaille. All three countries agreed to not interfere with 

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one another they expanded. Each country acted aggressively which led to the start of World 
War II. 
 
Step forward in pairs 
Celina: ​Japan’s justification for its act of aggression was do to its desire for raw material, 
marketing goods and more growing space for its nation.  
 
Jacky:​ The Japanese invasion of Manchuria happened in 1931, and the invasion of China in 
1937. Japan tried to convince that they could serve as the new Asian dominance.  
 
Step forward in pairs 
Nick: ​Adolf Hitler ​speaking in Berlin Germany 1940 
“​Those who​ ​want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of 
eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” 
Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is man's right to have the earth to till 
with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth….” 
“Become strong again in ​spirit​,​ strong in​ ​will,​ strong in ​endurance​, strong to bear all  
Sacrifices” 
 
(Jonny Will Hold A saute until Nick is done talking while everyone else is turned sideways 
having their right hand all the way out.)  
Spirit,Will,Endurance,Sacrifices,-two people stop holding there hand out and step out. 
 
Jonny:​ Germany; In 1936 re-occupies Rhineland with the goal of remilitarisation violating the 
treaty of versailles. 
 
Nick: ​Nazi Germany openly started rearmament in 1935 
Hitler made it clear in both his speeches and in “Mein Kampf” the “unjust” terms of the 
“Treaties of Versailles”. 
 
Jonny: ​Hitler was openly determined to break the terms and re-assert Germany’s right to 
control its own military. 
 
(Step forward together) 
Zaira:​ Standard battlefield operations from WWI ​no longer​ ​sufficed in WWII. 
(everyone shake their heads no) 
 
Gaby:​ Now the ​Blitzkrieg (BLITZ KREEG)​, used in the invasion of poland, is a Military tactic 
designed to ​shock​ ​and ​disorganize​, the enemy. Blitzkrieg uses speed, superiority, and the 
element of surprise. 
(Shock-Act stunned. Disorganized- separate a little bit and have your facial expressions 
worried.) 
 

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(everyone step back but Jonny steps forward)  
Jonny:​ Masatada Asaeda ​is a little 3rd grade girl who wrote about her experience when the 
atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.  
 
Celina:​ All of a sudden, there was something like lightning and I covered my​ face with my 
hands.​ When I opened my eyes and looked around, it was dark and I couldn't see anything. 
While I was feeling around in the darkness, it became light. 
 
​(Step forward alone) 
Jacky:​ I was thinking of going home, and I found that all of the houses around me had been 
destroyed and ​fires were burning here and there. 
 
(step forward alone) 
Zaira:​ I started running home, crying and calling, “Mother! Mother!” But I couldn't tell where 
my house has been.  
 
(step forward alone) 
Gaby: ​I just went around this way and that, then I heard my sister calling my name. I was 
shocked when I saw her, because she was stained with blood all over. ​ ​I looked at myself; the 
skin of both my arms and feet had peeled away and was hanging off. I didn't know what all 
this meant, and I was frightened, so I bursted into tears. 
 
(step forward alone) 
Jonny: ​Meanwhile, Mother had crawled out from the pile of tiles and dragged an overcoat and 
father’s coat out of a trunk and wrapped us in them. We spend the night in Yasu shrine in 
Gion. Because of their burns everyone was crying for water all night. The next morning we 
were taken by truck. To a buddhist temple in Kabe.  
 
(step forward alone) 
Nick:​ That night, my sister died. How can I describe mother grief? How can I describe the 
horrible scene I saw in the temple then? Who can imagine the miseries we went through 
excepted who were there themselves. 
 
(Step forward alone) 
Maria: ​It is entirely to put the terrible sight into words. Countless people suffering from burns 
and wounds, groaning in pain, and their body covered with maggots, and dying in delirium, 
one after another. It was hell on earth. 
 
(Everyone, leave a gap between each other and form an arrow) 
 
Jacky: ​President Truman’s militaristic choice to drop the ​Atomic Bomb ​wounded and killed 
civilians. 
 

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Celina: ​The ​explosion​ wiped out 90 percent of ​Hiroshima ​and immediately vaporized 70,000 
people 
 
Nick​: On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on NAGASAKI 
80,000 Japanese people perished.  
 
Jacky​: On August 14, 1945, J.V day 
 
Celina: ​On May 7th 1945, G.V. day 
 
Nick-Maria-Jonathan: ​Hault ​*​Bow your heads after​* 
 
Celina-Jacky: ​Teishi ​*​Bow your heads after* 
 
Gaby-Zaria: ​Arresto ​*​Bow your heads after​*  
(Slowly raise your head and everyone take a bow together. Maria will stomp her feet 
twice and thats everyones que to stomp their feet). (Leaves by marching away and 
singing) 
 
Men at war-oooooor 
Men at war-oooooor 
Late at night when your sleeping UDT's come a creeping 
All around-ooooound, A creeping all around, ​HEY! 
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