Wars inevitably cause immense human suffering, but the suffering in World War I for soldiers and civilians alike was especially traumatic and unbearable.What is there in Clapham’s account that may explain this phenomenon? (June 19, 1915, 341).
Clapham’s account displays not only the physical trauma resulting in debilitating physical effects, but also severe and everlasting emotion trauma. By Clapham’s tone in this writing, the events he is seeing do not appear to be abnormal, he appears to witness these traumatic and unbearable experiences every single day. Clapham speaks about finding a soldier under the soil, “We dragged him out and laid him under the hedge. There was nothing else we could do for him. He had another drink later, but he
Clapham’s account displays not only the physical trauma resulting in debilitating physical effects, but also severe and everlasting emotion trauma. By Clapham’s tone in this writing, the events he is seeing do not appear to be abnormal, he appears to witness these traumatic and unbearable experiences every single day. Clapham speaks about finding a soldier under the soil, “We dragged him out and laid him under the hedge. There was nothing else we could do for him. He had another drink later, but he