I regret having signed up to go to war. I am currently in a trench, about 15 miles south of the German border, holding off the rats, lice, and German soldiers. Massive bombings are taking place everywhere, bursting my eardrums, with mud and shrapnel flying every direction imaginable. Machine gun fire rings in my ears, and I fear it will never escape. The smell of mustard gas flows through the trenches, but with our gas masks we are protected. Many of the men have had the misfortune of getting trench foot, but I am one of the smarter ones, changing socks every day and drying my feet for the short time that the fighting stops. Rations are getting low and many are starving to death, but I remain determined to survive.
What was the reason we entered this war in the first place? Was it the sinking of the Lusitania? When we intercepted the Zimmerman Note? All the ships we lost due to the German …show more content…
The sight of death is forever trapped within my mind. Sometimes I feel the urge to go up top, but I remember the barbed wire that restricts us from entering No Man’s Land. No Man’s Land is the dangerous place between trenches that surely means death for those that set foot there.
The tactics are very strange. Both lines just hold in the trenches until reinforcements show up or they think of a better weapon to use. The wretched trenches. Filled with mucky water and rats. I don’t want to be in these trenches for another minute. I fear madness will take over my mind. If that were to happen, I will surely die. I must remain focused on what it is I am doing.
Many of the men fear the same thing. Death. If one dies, whether it be starvation or being shot, the man beside them would desperately pray to survive. If one made it to night, they would praise god for being so merciful. God was the only way out of this hell hole. Praying would consume a man and they would never return to reality, becoming easy prey for the
What was the reason we entered this war in the first place? Was it the sinking of the Lusitania? When we intercepted the Zimmerman Note? All the ships we lost due to the German …show more content…
The sight of death is forever trapped within my mind. Sometimes I feel the urge to go up top, but I remember the barbed wire that restricts us from entering No Man’s Land. No Man’s Land is the dangerous place between trenches that surely means death for those that set foot there.
The tactics are very strange. Both lines just hold in the trenches until reinforcements show up or they think of a better weapon to use. The wretched trenches. Filled with mucky water and rats. I don’t want to be in these trenches for another minute. I fear madness will take over my mind. If that were to happen, I will surely die. I must remain focused on what it is I am doing.
Many of the men fear the same thing. Death. If one dies, whether it be starvation or being shot, the man beside them would desperately pray to survive. If one made it to night, they would praise god for being so merciful. God was the only way out of this hell hole. Praying would consume a man and they would never return to reality, becoming easy prey for the