Rat Problems In The Trenches

I don’t know how I am still alive. The war is going to last some time, and might be another year before it is over. The war has only just begun and it’s going to be a war of exhaustion. Life here is rough we spend our days and nights in a long and narrow muddy and smelly trenches, filled with dead bodies, many men have died in the trenches from injuries, and diseases or get killed in “No man’s land” that is the middle part between the trenches that does not belong to neither of us we use it to attack the other side it contained barbed wire, hundreds of corpses, and land mines guarded by machine gun and sniper fire. Soldiers were forced to cross No Man's Land to advance or scout for enemy positions. Official truces were often necessary to retrieve

If we aren’t being killed by the enemies, the circumstances around us is threatening us. The rat problem has been an ongoing problem in the trenches, there are two main types of rats the brown and the black rats, the brown rats were feared the most they feed on human remains, we try to get rid of these rats using all kinds of methods but none of them work because a single rat couple could produce up to 900 offspring in a year and not to mention the infection they spread and contaminate our foods. Rats weren’t the only source of infection. We had lice that lived and would breed in our clothes which caused us to itch the eggs that the lice would leave don’t come off by washing the clothes. Lice spread a disease called trench fever which is a severe pain with fever and the victim would take him around 12 weeks to heal. Trench foot is one of the problems we have to deal with here in the trenches which was a fungal infection caused by wet and cold feet that result in amputation of the foot. And the smell of carcasses and latrines in trenches give off a most offensive stench. And the smell of men who haven’t bathed in months would give off the worst odor. Add to this the smell of poison gas that killed many from the agonies of