Do you think, the soldiers, would have stopped supporting the war if he had knokwn the reality as depicted in this information? Explain.
Information( diary of a British soldier during WW1 ):
Rates bred by the tens of thousands and lived on the fat of the land. When we were sleeping in the fuk holes the things ran over us, played about, copulated and fouled our scraps of food, their young squeaking incessandtly. There was no proper system of waste disposal in trench life. Empty tins of all kinds were flung away over the top on both sides of the trench. Millions of tins were thus available for all the rats in France and Blegium in hunderds of miles of trenches. During brief moments of quiet at night, one could hear a continuous rattle of tins moving against each other. The rats were turning them over. What happened to the rats under heavy sheel-fire was a mystery, but their powers of survival kept place with each new weapon, including poison gas.
Bullets skimming the top of the brick wall took on a lighting changes of direction after they had ricocheted. In a crowded trench it was not uncommo for two or even three men to be hit by a ricochet. Jarvis was shot clean through the neck by a ricochet when standing close beside me. He bled severely, and when carted off we felt sure he was a goner, but, far from pegging out, he never got beyond the base hospital. The bullet had passed through his neck without rendering a vital part and, the wound quickly healing, he was back in the front line in a few weeks, This was tough luck really, as he deserved a spell in Britain.
2006-10-16
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