My Life In The Trenches

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Life out here is really different then the time I would like to spend in my home. I am writing this

only as a way to not go crazy during this war. Me and the other soldiers have been fighting until

there was no more strength in us. It is not easy to survive out here since we are constantly

running out of food which leads to the starvation of many soldiers. My life here is all but comfort

and relaxation. Due to all the new weaponry that came out in the late 19th century we are

struggling to defend ourself. The only way to fight against the other side was to make a lot of

trenches for the soldiers and the machine gun so that we were able to keep ourselves out of

danger and to shoot back at the enemy. I got to tell you that even though the trenches protected
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There was a lot of rain, and it filled the trenches with water. It

made the ground wet leading to us not having a way to walk and stand. Here it comes again, the

only way to stay in the trenches was to put dead soldiers. Oh, how it hurts me that I stood on my

friends all this time. Being in the trenches with wet ground and dead bodies brought a lot of

diseases. The diseases influenza, trench foot, typhoid, and trench fever almost got me sickened.

There is also this deadly new thing called poison gas that came out. Poison gas was one of our

enemies. After it came to your body it just ate up you skin, man you will not stand. Even the gas

masks could not protect you after awhile. How sad to see those around you die but we had to

keep on fighting. Some of the guys were ordered to attack, meaning they had to climb out of

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