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The Worst Mistake In Trench Life

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Sunday , April, 19 . The army trained us to use a rifle that was it they did not teach us tactics. After finishing training (or so it was called ) we were relocated on the border on the west side .On the border me and another hundred were in a regiment. They have set us on the trench. My first look on the trench was not pleasant I could see rats ,insects ,dead organisms , it also smelled horrible the smell was unbearable. After spending a few months there I was sure I have made the biggest mistake in my life. Trench life was horrible I had friends that got a lot of diseases like (trench fever, shell shocks, trench foot , gas) and much more. But the most common was the shell shocks people got mad and crazy when they heard a bomb they could not

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