Comments by "ÉIRE" (@EIRE55) on "Disturban History" channel.

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  2. This was literally a war with the worst conditions by far. Here's a list of some of them..... Artillery barrages could last for hours with the noise so loud and constant that it sounds like your ear is right up to the engine of a jumbo jet while you're rattled to your teeth by the concussions. Being constantly surrounded by the rotting corpses of your friends while witnessing rats eat their bodies, with the rats also spreading disease, biting soldiers, and stealing soldiers' food. Knowing that you're just waiting at any moment to be called to perform a massive suicidal charge directly into enemy machine guns and artillery fire. The fact that the trenches would at many times be filled with rancid parasite-infested stagnant water after it rains from the corpses and human excrement soaking in the it which spread illness and disease. Also don't forget about the Spanish Flu that was running rampant which caused the deaths of more soldiers than the war itself. The governments purposely hid the severe news of the outbreak from the soldiers to prevent if from negatively impacting morale. Then there's also the constant fear of gas attacks which would cause an excruciating death that would always have you on edge with your gas masks ready. Many soldiers in the British army had no luxuries such as cots or bunkers like the Germans had. The British soldiers literally just slept on the muddy dirt in the trenches or maybe on top of some boxes/gear. Lastly, "the thundering boom of an exploding shell" is a massive understatement. And finally, unlike WW2, many soldiers were not treated as heroes after returning home due to many of them having PTSD or developing other mental illness. Employers would purposely hang signs outside their establishments saying thinks like "Now Hiring - No Veterans." Nobody in the civilian world had any conception of what these soldiers went through, which further added to their sense of isolation and sense of being unappreciated and misunderstood.
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