blog #2

            Going into war needs courage, and every soldier has it. The video the professor showed us when he visited showed men that were in the military. They were strong, generous, and playful. The drills they were doing almost seemed fun. They looked like obstacle courses we did as elementary school students with a little bit more intensity. In WWI they didn't have convincing commercial videos but instead they had posters. The people who joined the army after seeing these encouragements are probably going to be surprise when they find out that everything they saw in those videos were not exactly what they were going to be doing.
       
          In WWI mustard gas was created. It caused many damages and many soldiers died from it. Those who lived weren't even lucky. Mustard gas caused permanent damage like blindness, and caused server burns As seen in this picture:

         

Another horrible effect of this war was trench foot. soldiers did not have the best living conditions. Trench foot was caused by infections by the cold weather and the wet insanitary living conditions. In the trenches the Soldiers weren't able to remove their wet, damp socks or their boots, which causes the feet to get numb and turn red and blue. if server enough these patients had to have their feet amputated.

      A problem that was occurring in their camp sites was the abundance of rats, lice, and frogs. They were every where. The soldiers would constantly wash their clothing hoping the lice would go away but the lice eggs were hidden in the seam of their clothing therefore making it harder to get rid of. The rats scared some of the soldiers. they could become the size of a cat. And they would eat human remains like the eyes and liver. The men would try to kill as many as they could but although they got rid of many there were tons more.
     
       Now that these soldiers have experience the military life during WWI I wonder if they would think the same way if they rewind back to the time they watched those commercials.

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