Each soldier experiences something different throughout the events of war, yet most comrades share terrifying events. War and combat trigger alarming events that lead to the decrease of an army, having to witness death, and the need to kill innocent animals in order to put them out of their misery. These young men had to adapt to the idea of death and the fact that their army slowly decreased. A lot of the German military ended up startled in the beginning of combat and they “suffered severely and came back only eighty [men] strong” (Remarque 2). This unfortunate event is only one of the beginning events that exemplifies the horrors of war and leads to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. So many soldiers began dying that many fighters had friends
