When I first started reading these I thought that I knew about most of the things that went on in the battles, but I was proven wrong. I mean I knew about the rats, the disease, the shell shock, and I knew about the weather, but I guess not as well as I had previously thought. I did not know all the gross details.
I knew that the rats ate the corpses, but I didn't know that the rats would also eat the wounded. I knew that their was diseases going around like gangrene, but I didn't know about the trench foot or trench fevor. I did know about shell shock, but I didn't know about the different levels of shell shock. I didn't even know that people would claw at their own mouths when they had it. Lastly, I knew that weather plays a huge part in battles, but I didn't know that it would rain so much. I guess it never registered before that the trenches would fill up and the soldiers would have to still walk/run through.
Like I said I knew about the things that had happened in the war, but not as in detail as these articles. Some of the things mentioned in the article I had heard before, but it never really registered. For example, the weather, I had heard that it was raining a ton during the war, but it didn't register before that the trenches would fill.
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