https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8 Made with mirth en-us 2018-08-04 11:03:57 UTC 2025-10-26 15:36:45 UTC hello@padlet.com draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943732 He and the rest of the Second Company have just returned from the front, where they had almost 50% casualties in the last day. Consequently, the surviving 80 men get to enjoy the rations and provisions alotted to the full 150. Baumer tells us how he and his classmates originally joined up at the age of 18, and they are 19 now. ]]> 2018-08-04 11:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943732 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943766 Those who are still alive, that is. He tells us of the "wonderfully care-free hours" (page 9) sitting on the latrine while reading mail and sharing gossip. Baumer and his buddies go to visit Kemmerich in the hospital. Kemmerich has lost his foot to amputation and they can all see that he will die soon. ]]> 2018-08-04 11:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943766 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943786 Muller tries to persuade Kemmerich to give him his nice boots. After all, Kemmerich can't use them with only one foot, and once Kemmerich dies someone else will steal them anyway. Baumer spends a few cigarettes to bribe an orderly to give Kemmerich some morphine to ease his pain. 

]]> 2018-08-04 11:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271943786 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944110 Willie looks forward to war. Willie writes his first letter to his father. The Irish troops move through England noting ho similar it is to Ireland. This perhaps highlights a sense of sadness about the divisions between England and Ireland ]]> 2018-08-04 11:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944110 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944200 The people who think Ireland must be an independent country, are trying to get the British to leave the country, and found an Irish state. The Rising was suppressed very hard. ]]> 2018-08-04 11:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944200 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944296 The novel is does not gloss over the gruesome aspects of trench-life and warfare, so be warned.  In fact, some of the best and most suspenseful scenes were those involving mustard gas, which Willie and his fellow soldiers had never seen before; Barry did well in describing how it crept across the battlefields.  Overall, a worthwhile look at WWI from the point of view of an Irish soldier caught between his loyalties for Ireland and the British army.]]> 2018-08-04 11:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944296 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944414 2018-08-04 11:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944414 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944425 2018-08-04 11:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944425 draughtmokonopi https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944450 2018-08-04 11:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/draughtmokonopi/gzpqr6o1xdn8/wish/271944450