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Life in a Trench | World War I | History

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-Call to freedom pg. 328-331
-"Life in a trench" video

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Life in the trenches during WWI was horrific.

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Soldiers knew they were not going to be able to go home to there families so they lived in the trenches with no hope. They tried to keep their heads up thinking that they might have a chance, but in reality, they knew that they were not going to go home to their families.

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The historian Robert J. Dalessandro from the video Life in a trench, suggests that “You just did it you existed day to day tried to go on keep your chin up but one day the bullet was gonna have your name on it. You were gonna perish you weren't going on” (2:57-3:06)

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This evidence shows that the soldiers living in trenches lived in fear all the time. They were constantly fighting not only the war that was going on outside but the war that was in their minds.

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In the opinion of the historian Libby H. O’Connell from the video Life in a trench notes that “A lot of time is spent just sitting cleaning tools and being scared to death the battles going to start any minute”(1:44-1:49)

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This piece of evidence shows that the soldiers living in the trenches faced a difficult situation of wearing gas masks. If there was an attack involving gas they would only have a few seconds to put on their masks which could be very risky.

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According to the textbook Call to Freedom, Sterling Stuckey, and Linda Salvucci inform us that “Some shells contained poison gas, such as chlorine gas or mustard gas. Poison gas destroyed soldiers' lungs, killing them slowly. Gas masks could provide protection. However, soldiers had to either wear masks all the time or slip them on in seconds.” (pg. 329)