The men and the dead bodies spread around many diseases, trench foot was especially common among diseases that were caused by standing in muddy and water filled trenches. Paul is the main character in All Quiet on the Western Front. Him and his friends all enlisted in the army when they were 19. When they got to the trenches they met a man named Kat who was much older then them and who quickly became close friends with Paul. Even thought some soldiers survived the shellings and gas, they were still destroyed by the war.
Imagine going into war losing your hand in an explosion with third degree burns all over your body. On top of that, you just witnessed the gruesome death of a close friend. The Wounded Warrior Project helps such soldiers and their families. Wounded Warriors also assists families in coping with all the stress and worries the families have for their loved one. These soldiers are risking their lives and are getting hurt so others can live peaceful lives.
“The Lost Battalion” Review: The main issues Major Whittlesey had to face in commanding the 308th were to lead his troops into the German lines at the Argonne forest and to keep advancing following the command given to him, also because he was promised supplies and back up, which gave him a little bit of hope at least but which he never ended up getting. Being an inexperienced army commander from New York, who managed the situation with insecurity and naïve war strategies, he was aware that this battle could result not only in the death of most of his men but also of his own. Major Whittlesey found himself in a very risky situation without any alternatives but to keep fighting: the 308th was surrounded by the Germans, in an unknown location, with only very few supplies left and thousands of his soldiers dying helpless. He also had to face problems of communication with the headquarters, because the telephone lines were so easily cut that he had to rely on pigeons and runners, which then led to miscommunication and the general did not even know his position. That’s why the supplies never reached the 308th and many of his men had to die without medical and food supplies.
Trench warfare Trench warfare is where rival armies dug themselves a trench, in order to protect themselves from gun fire from side. Life in the Trenches during World War 1 was terrible. Conditions were disgusting, the first thing a new recruit would notice was the smell, rotting bodies barely buried under the ground, men who hadn’t washed in weeks because there were no facilities for them to use. Although these smells were repulsive, new recruits soon got used to them and contributed to it with their own bodily odour. Disease and infection was very common in these conditions.
Many factors we causing all of this, and these are just a few. When soldiers at the Western Front of World War I, and they heard a whistle, they would have to run over and try to take the next trench. This is what caused so many deaths in the Great War. They would run over, sometimes even with just bayonets and charge towards the machine gun fire, hoping to not get hit. This often cause great anxiety for some soldiers because they knew if
The father began to cry and this was the only time that Elie saw his father cry. Elie felt emotion and love from his father, which made him feel safe and cared for. Elie relies on his father and needs to be with his father in the camp. When he is going through selection before a Kommando, he begs the officer saying, “I want to stay with my father,” (48); a sad cry from child that softens the Kommando’s heart. Elie and his father have a strong relationship and Elie wants to survive with his father.
Nothing should be sugar coded because many lives were lost and many individuals suffered a great deal and everyone should understand why. In McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field” he explains life before and after war. There was once a time when they experience the feeling of love and the enjoyment of life, but now they lay dead looking back at the life they had to give up to fight in war. Those who have died have passed the torch to the next generation of soldiers. This proved that the peace treaty didn’t solve the problem and a new war would occur.
One day during the war, he was called upon to take his work out into the fields. Equipped with his medic backpack and a gun, he had to run through the battle zone, diving to one safe spot to the next, quickly, he bandaged his fellow war mates; then he heard a scream. Looking to his left, his very close friend, Fred Golding, was shot in the chest. Running as fast as he could, Emil made it to Fred, but knew it was no use; Fred had died in his arms. Coming into this war, Emil knew the possibility of dying was the chance he and his friends must take.
After doing this for years many athletes seek refuge elsewhere, where they can be free and express their athletic abilities. “In Iraq, all the males are required to join the army, but they were so poorly equipped and trained, he felt like it was an instant death sentence," Markos said. "My father watched so many of his friends die in the war, so he began the process of
‘The Soldier’ was written when the war only started and people tended to believe that that 'the war's going to be over just this Christmas', so the tone of the poem is very optimistic. Some men who had been restless before the war believed that fighting for their motherland and for justice can enable them to spiritually stand up again – 'all evil shed away', as the poem suggests, 'in the hearts at peace.' 'Does it Matter' was written in 1916 as people began to see the horror of war. They started to realize that the war was not a knightly adventure they’d expected. Soldiers frequently got injured and lots of them died in battles or of illness in the deplorable conditions of the army.