When I first heard about the upcoming war I was excited and ready to enlist as you remember. It’s all different now. I’m in the front line of the trenches. I have seen many of my friends and acquaintances drop dead next to me or running across no man’s land. The German’s are ruthless, some men have been scorched to death because of the German invention, flamethrowers. I can’t sleep. Not because of shell shock, like most of the other men, but because the general is always ordering me and two other men to dig underground. I just found out we are digging under no man’s land to get to the German’s side to plant explosives. We aren’t the most original thinkers because at night when there is a moment of silence you can hear the opposing German
