Name: What It Was Like To Be a Trench Soldier in WWI
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The first World War was one of the deadliest conflicts

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in the history of the human race, in which over 40

The life of a trench soldier was a living hell.

They endured disease, hunger, rats, horrific smells,

to terms with the reality that they could die at any moment.

it was like to be a World War I trench soldier.

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From October, 1914, to March, 1918, British, French, German,

Russian, and Ottoman forces fought in trenches,

dug about seven feet deep and six feet wide into the ground

While the trenches gave soldiers cover and protection from enemy

the cause of many deaths due to their sewer-like conditions.

When you hear about the trenches of World War I,

you might envision a bunch of crudely dug walkways.

But these trenches had a purposeful, strategic design.

designed their trenches as a defense mechanism.

Aggressive, heavy weapons forced both sides to hunker down.

So trenches became a way to hold a line without making

The trenches were also dug in zigzags and curves, which

created corners and corridors, giving soldiers better vantage

Those zigzag patterns kept infiltrating enemies

from jumping into the trench and wiping out everyone in sight.

And these trenches all served a different purpose.

for troops on R&R. Some trenches were for supply storage.

Something about being covered in soupy mud is fun.

People pay good money to get slathered in organic mud

at fancy day spas in the name of healthier skin.

But during World War I, prolonged exposure

to flooded, muddy trenches could cause trench foot.

You could lose your toes-- or worse, your feet.

Trench foot was so rampant and commonplace,

it impacted roughly 75,000 British soldiers alone.

that soldiers gave each other regular foot inspections.

in an effort to prevent trench foot, that could happen

were reported to have developed trench foot at the Glastonbury

Festivals, the Leeds Festivals, and Download Festivals

as a result of the consistent cold, wet, and muddy conditions

to manage the health of soldiers in World War I

than they had been in previous conflicts,

it was still common for soldiers to simply get sick and die.

The cold, damp, and unsanitary conditions in the trenches

And the unforgiving elements made them prone to illness.

Lice circulated in the trenches and spread maladies

to wake up finding rats eating their rations--

Yes, the rats were so bold they'd take bites

And let's not forget that the trenches were the breeding

ground for one of the deadliest outbreaks in history,

Due to World War I, soldiers' already low immune systems,

weakened by malnourishment as well as the stresses of combat

and chemical attacks, their susceptibility to the disease

when German forces shocked Allied soldiers

along the Western Front by firing more than 150 tons

of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions

The United States, which entered World War I in 1917,

also developed and used chemical weapons.

Future President Harry S. Truman was the captain of a US field

artillery unit that fired poison gas against the Germans

All in, approximately 100,000 tons of chemical weapons

were used in World War I, injuring around 500,000 troops

and killing nearly 30,000 men, including 2,000 Americans.

It was a new level of warfare that no one was expecting.

A gas attack could severely injure or end

anyone unlucky enough to come into proximity with it.

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What It Was Like To Be a Trench Soldier in WWI

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