I'm sorry, is that a one or a two?

Cullen had a paper due today. He was supposed to pick a country and find out how World War one affected the country. He picked Australia and we spent some time talking last night about what percentage of all Australians were killed, how many of the soldiers died, how many were wounded at Gallipoli, exactly what the Ottoman Empire was doing and other things that Cullen just didn't know much about.

He wrote a decent paper and then handed it over to me for some copyediting. He is meant to turn in the rough draft and then the finished product. We went over some changes to make the words flow better and talked about some things he could add like how important WWI is and how it's glossed over today even though it had a huge impact on how countries behaved when they were invaded during WWII.

He found a terrific population density map of the times from google image search, put the whole thing together, called it good and went off to school this morning.

The paper was meant to be about World War Two. How ironic that he wrote about how everyone focuses on WWII and ignores WWI and then his teacher refused to accept the paper for even partial credit while he wrote a new one. Funny old thing, life is.