Letter To The Trenches Soldier Report

Dear mom and dad, I didn’t know being in the trenches was going to be very difficult. At first I thought it was going to be fun, I was singing on a train because I thought it was going to be a wonderful and exciting experience of my life. At first I was laughing, shouting, and singing. As a matter of fact, I thought it wouldn’t take long at all I thought it was only going to take a month, I felt that it was going to be like a camping trip.

But it wasn’t at all what I expected it to be, it was very long and it was devastating, I felt so bad about all the people that died in the war. We had to dig out these long hole in the ground and made a trail, called a trench. We were asked to stay in the trenches in order to survive, I would agree because

It’s was a really bad experience because I never thought of war being this cruel.
I didn’t leave any leftovers of food on the ground because I was afraid of the rats. Those creatures were wired looking and there faces creeps me out with those evil eyes and their long naked tails. we were sleeping in our clothes and our hair was cut short so our helmet can fit inside our caps. so dressing for us was really just putting on our boots. I thought our hair being short was a great idea because we can just scrape the lice right off with the edge of a blade.

In my last days of the trenches I was extremely lucky because I avoided a fungus called Trench Foot. This is no ordinary fungus it will swell up your foot like two times the normal size of a person 's foot. You can stab the foot and not feel a thing, the men who got the trench foot sooner or later had to get their feet and legs amputated. I was lucky because my feet were swelling but did not get infected one more day in that flooded trench and it would have been too late for me.
I thanked god for him to help me get through this devastating war and for my feet to be saved. I wouldn’t dare join another war if there ever was another one