The Dreadful Life In The Trenches
Life in the trenches was definitely not a place you would want to be. Flies, rats and lice are only some of the pests that the soldiers had to deal with.
Trench foot was the top disease that soldiers would have to avoid but that was hard because it was very easy to catch. Trench foot is caused by exposure of the feet to damp and conditions. If it got very bad the soldiers would have to cut off some of their toes because they developed gangrene.
Quite often the trenches would over flow and the rats would come out and eat the dead bodies of soldiers, often only their eyes and liver, disgusting, right?!
It can be said that soldiers who lived in the trenches were fighting a war on two levels, or perhaps two different kinds of wars. In addition to their main mission against a common enemy, soldiers in the trenches had to fight daily against diseases, rats, lack of sanitation, and other problems which seemed to happen more severely in trenches than they did anywhere else.
War thoughts,
by Shania G
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