27th of December 1916
All over town, there are these notices that are being put, the most noticeable one being ‘Your country needs you!. They are all over the place! I 've seen them while in transit to the store and on the dividers of a great deal of structures. They all publicize the continuous war occurrence at this time. I think they are being put all over the place in light of the fact that insufficient individuals are agreeing to the war. They are notwithstanding attempting to advance war on the TV and radio. Despite the fact that I once in a while hear it out in light of the fact that I don 't have the chance, at whatever point I do, I find out about how respectable war is.
I can not help but rather feel remorseful when perusing or finding out about the war on
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7th of March 1917
We went up into the bleeding edge close Arras, through soaked and crushed field. As we were climbing to the our area along the correspondence trenches, a shell burst in front of me and one of my unit dropped. He was the first man I ever saw executed. Both his legs were passed over and the entire of his face and body was peppered with shrapnel. The sight turned my stomach. I was debilitated and startled, and the creeping realisation that we would never make it out of here, was slowly making it’s way to the front of our thoughts..
That night I had been sleeping in a burrow around three hours when I woke up feeling something gnawing my hip. I put my hand down and my fingers shut on a major rodent. It had snacked through my haversack, my tunic and creased kilt to get at my substance. With a cry of repulsiveness I tossed it from me. I’d thrown the rat to the side, when we once more; came under heavy artillery fire, I saw my friends being tossed around like ragdolls as their bodies were torn apart by shrapnel. Little by little, parts of my soul were torn from my consciousness, as I saw the people I trained with, lived with, slept with, ate with die, right in front of my