Was World War 1 Romantic Or Romantic

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Though the writers thought war may have been heroic and romantic in the begin, they soon saw the true face behind the gruesome thing we call war. Sadly they all had to find out the hard way that World War I was just awful and in no way, whatsoever, was it romantic. Soldiers were stuck in trenches where if they dared to try and exit they would be shot dead on the spot and the Germans were constantly throwing mustard gas into the trenches and if our soldiers didn’t put on the difficult gas mask quickly and hold their breath till it was on then they would surely die. And though people may think that if they just stayed in the trenches then they would be okay, many don’t realize that the trenches held water very well and so the soldiers would have

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