War Came Home

The War Came Home This statement might seem small to few but for the nearly six million British and German soldiers that were disabled due to World War 1, it was the truth.(When) Every day the men had to look at their injuries and diseases and see them as a shadow of war. Both sides, the British and the Germans, fought in the same war and had similar wounds that fellow citizens couldn’t imagine carrying with them every day. In the span of fifty-two months over 9.5 million soldiers were murdered, that is averaged to be 5,600 men every day that the war continued to happen on. (When) Twenty million men were severely wounded and nearly eight million men would go back to their homes permanently disabled. (WHEN) These injuries were the worst that …show more content…
This was due to many factors one of them being shrapnel that tore through the skin and bone. (cite) The major cut was not only life threatening but extremely hard to take care of on the battlefield. Most victims of shrapnel would pass away unless cared for immediately. However, not all of these injuries were physical. Another factor would be “Shell shock”, the men of World War 1 would be under the constant threat of explosions and the thought brought many of them to lose their minds. Having to constantly be worried about looking over your shoulder or where you are stepping could take the life out of the most honorable of men. Having to always be thinking if someone was after them, the men would slowly start to go insane until there was nothing left of the men they were when the war began. Other symptoms that come from being so close to these explosions were the loss of taste, smell, and even some cases of memory loss. (SMITHSONIAN) To protect themselves, there were trenches that they would live in. These deep paths were right in the middle of the battle field that would not only protect them from shells but also from the enemy charges. These trenches were rat infested and unsanitary at best; at worst they were places of torment and death. The rats carried afflictions that shortened their lives of more men than gunshots. Millions of families lost the men they loved, either while they were in the field or back at home. The war did not end when the men came home, many of them would have night terrors and the diseases that they had would often kill them. The families of the poor soldiers would have to sit and watch the one they love pass away and he was not even in the line of fire. Not many families were spared in the in the sadness that spread over