Trench

It was Tuesday, March 29, 2016 when Alex Marcotte thought it would be a normal day at work. Instead, he would never get to be seen by his daughters, wife, or family members again. This is all due to the trench collapsation of the Aqua Ohio Excavation company in the city of Mentor, Ohio, which left three little girls without a father. Before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created in 1973, there were numerous counts of workers killed while working in trenches. The…

night, living among rats, Trench foot, and lice. I haven’t slept well since the war started. I either lay awake at night with the thought of my friends being blown apart or shot right in front of me, or I am praying to God that I don’t get shot when the enemy is attacking the shelter. Besides not being able to sleep, I also am trying to avoid getting Trench Foot, I hope I don’t have to go through that agonizing pain (if it does happen). In case you don’t know what Trench foot is I will inform…

like trying to conquer hell. He ignored me so I had no other choice but to push. I grabbed my rifle and some other soldiers set up the ladders on the trench. We waited for our commander to tell us when to push, all of us fearing when he would tell us to. He looked over the trench and then blew on an ear piercing whistle.…

was a new weapon that would change the face of the war and many thought, that it was a quick victory and that was the machine gun that shot 600 bullets per minute and would annihilate anyone that came into its path. Another development in war was trench warfare. It was not a pleasant experience being in the trenches. It was hot when it was hot and cold when it was cold. With it being wet and muddy and having soldiers no chance to bathe themselves it let to things as infestations to rats, lice,…

ringing in my ears. The artillery has bombed another trench yet again (Young 28). My m1 Garand is twelve feet away from me, and the trenches are filling with shrapnel. More explosions are bound to come, so I crawl to my Springfield semi-automatic (m1 Garand), still with the smell of gunpowder and smoke in my nostrils. But I continue to go get my gun I grab it and shoot the Germans pouring in the wood rotten trenches. Then I get out of the trench someone yells my name, ”VICTOR GET DOWN!” Enemy…

Do you ever wonder why things turn out the way they do: why the colors of the leaves change when the season turns from summer to fall, or why someone can be treated so awfully, yet still continue to love that person with all their heart ? “The sense of wonder speaks of our hunger to be moved, to be engaged and impassioned with the world and take pleasure in it, attuned to it and fascinated by it” (7 Ways to Spark Your Sense of Wonder). It is Ted Kooser, an American poet and a Pulitzer Prize…

The Mariana Trench In the Pacific Ocean, there is an underworld that has been rarely explored and contains the deepest point in the world’s oceans. It is the Mariana Trench. The exploration of the remote Mariana Trench by only a few people offers insight on what it entails to get there, what has been discovered, and the importance of this discovery in the ocean. The Mariana Trench which is also known as the Marianas Trench is a crescent-shaped trench located in the western Pacific Ocean to the…

The broadening use of trench warfare developed a system that became the main method of combat in the Western Front. It created a stalemate within the Allies and the Central Powers, resulting in no true victory. As well as terror and disease for the soldier’s fighting inside them. Trench warfare was effective in shielding a soldier from the innovative machine guns and artillery. However, chemical weapons…

could get it any day and any time of the day without knowing it. It was easily spread throughout the soldiers because it was very contagious and the carriers of the disease and the ones that started were lice. The trenches were the perfect place for trench fever to flourish, “Death was always imminent from artillery fire, but just as threatening was illness from rat bites, bad food,…

its grow colder I’ve noticed them gnawing at my fallen trench mates. On top of all that, they’ve been spreading disease rampantly. They’re impossible to get rid of. We’ve tried shooting them out multiple times but they always come back to no avail. I hope I will be able to fend off any sort of disease from them. I must pick this up later, as I’ve reached the end of my time. Yesterday my commander made me stay up for so long in the trench. I’m so exhausted that i can barely write this.…