https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm Made with a dash of wit en-us 2018-10-09 19:03:55 UTC 2018-10-17 13:34:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761272 MAN, let me tell you how it is, LIVING in a a trench for the next few years. IT SUCKS. There would be a numerous amount of deaths in one single day. There are a HUGE amount of infected animals as in rats, frogs, lice and worse! Having to walk around or even on top of the dead soldiers is just glorifying and disgusting. Even the smell it leaves behind is RANCID! Did you know that rats can produce up to 900 offspring a year. They wanted me to go out to the "No Mans Land" and add some barb wire. I was like, your joking right, you want me to go out and risk my self of being shot by and enemy. Our general said "YES." So i went out there and did what i could before i heard gunshots fill  up the silence. what about sleeping crammed up in a little bunker. Its hard to get around. You met many fantastic people, but its pointless when they die; thats why me general told me we shouldn't make friends here. the wepon i only had was poison gas. it wasnt that great, somtimes i would aciddently 🤬 my own soilders and i would feel terrible! but mistakes arent jokes here. i was lectured and had to go back to traing on how and when to throw a poison gas grenade. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761272 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761326 Living in the trench sucks. I'm so over all of it. Deaths on the daily? Rat infestation? Frogs all over? Well that's living in the trench for you. I have seen many men die on their first day of living in these trenches. People are also dying randomly. They could just be lying down in the trench then all of a sudden, BAM, he's dead. But let me tell you about these rats.... They are TERRIBLE. There are two main types of rats, the brown rats and that black rats. Both are just disgusting, but the brown rat was especially feared upon. They gorge themselves onto human remains, eat anything and everything they could. OH but these frogs! You could find them anywhere. They are found in shell holes and in the base of the trenches.
There is one good thing that's going on. These grenades that we just got. Ya, they might be dangerous and could explode in your hands before you throw it, but its fine because the grenades can help us make the trenches without doing much work at all.]]> 2018-10-15 12:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761326 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761340

So this is what I was meant to be in life a pawn in a ugly 🤬 war that's supposed to fight for my country.
I think back in my life and wonder what went wrong. My life is eating garbage and watching people die on the daily. We carry over 3 bodies a day to the so called graveyard we have created to put these brave men to rest. The rats already got into our food supply but we have nothing else to eat. The rats are annoying as ever. Don't even get me started about the amount of lice and diseases have been spreading in this god forsaking place. These lice are spreading trench fever like a wildfire. I've lost more people I know to trench fever and diseases rather than while fighting the enemy. The only good thing about my life right now is playing with the new equipment that the army created on the daily, they call it a grenade it explodes into pieces of shrapnel that shred into the people I throw it at. It is a spectacular invention.]]> 2018-10-15 12:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761340 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761360 Man, my life sucks. I am so tired of living in the Trenches. One of the things I hate most is the rat infestation! There are 2 types of rats, brown and black. Anytime a soldier fell, the black rats would gorge themselves on the remains. Disgusting, I know. At night, when we're exhausted laying in the trenches they would just run across our faces. Now, frogs ad lice was even worse. Our heads would get infested with lice and caused Trench Fever which was PAINFUL!!!! The fevers we got were unexplainable. Frogs were mainly in the shell holes in water. Since it was always muddy and cold we got Trench Foot. It was a fungal infection that could turn gangrenous and result in amputation. Now.... the smell.... let me tell you about how HORRIBLE it stunk. Imagine 200,000 men rotting all around you and the smell their body is giving off. There was men who had not been showering and gave the WORST odor of dried sweat....it was disgusting. Poison gas and the stagnant mud was dreadful. The only interesting thing in my opinion has to be the new weapons they provided to us. My favorite weapon to use is the machine gun which became so dominate and was the key necessity to World War 1. They allowed you to 🤬 enemies on an assembly line, plus they weren't even heavy so we had less weigh on our back. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761360 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761438

I'm a worker in the Trenches and life is miserable. Everday is the same routine, we begin by having breakfast and we are watched over by the commanders. I attend to the trenches to repeat my daily chores of pumping out the water so that the life in the trenches was not as miserable and so nobody was a risk of the walls collapsing. it was boring. we were restricted to do many things during the day as snipers were pointed as us so we did nothing out of line. Our only free time was at night but that is also the only time we could get our sleep, if we got any sleep. All night rats infested with disease were running along our faces and the floors. I attempt to keep them away from me but they are constantly growing to the size of cats and more and more come everyday. Today my group was introduced to a new weapon, Poison Gas, it scary due to the fact that you cant see it once its released. which is good for attack on the enemies but their is always the fear of it coming back at us with the strong winds. It is a constant scare in the Trenches but I have to take it one day at a time.]]> 2018-10-15 12:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761438 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761831 my life is horrible I live in the trenches and everything sucks here. the smell reeks like rotten eggs. blahhhh. and whenever I have to set out barbed wire to no mans land I get cut by it. there is nothing to do I'm always so bored here. but the new weapon called the flamethrower is really fun to use when the captain lets us. we burn a lot of wood.

]]> 2018-10-15 12:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761831 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761880 My life suck in the trenches. It smells; there are rats all over and so many people are dying every day by the tens. The only part of war I like is the flamethrower. It burns through wood so easily and it keeps all of us warm.]]> 2018-10-15 12:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292761880 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762066 War...War never changes. this "Great War" isn't really so great,life sucks out here in the trenches when there's nothing going on shooting wise all of us are bored and have nothing to do but drown out or horrors and our demons with what rum were able to fight for. The rum is so little that even our friends and allies all of us have to fight. On top of all that fighting over our own demands the small of the whole battlefield is nauseating to everyone even the butchers who work around meat all day. With the smell the boredom and the senseless fighting over our only relief system (Rum) this war is already on its way to history as something to remember that we shouldn't let war get this far on, instead start one the instantly finish it. And with the grenade it will be over soon. hopefully at least.]]> 2018-10-15 12:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762066 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762289 I am a soldier in world war 1, all my friends are dying  because of the attacks and raids of the war which many of died only on the first day in the trenches. The smell is terrible with 200,000 dead bodies lying everywhere and tons of rats the size of cats laying on top of them and running across our faces every day and night. There are millions of rats black and brown that infest all of the trenches that can grow to the size of a cat, they can produce up to 900 offspring in a  year. The rifle which is a portable long barreled firearm that you must hold with both hands and brawled against the shoulder. Its used with black powder. Its super powerful and very dangerous.]]> 2018-10-15 12:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762289 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762345 Life here in the midst of battle is filled to the brim with bodies from the daily death toll. This cycle repeating itself constantly over and over and... This kind of life is one no man should face, but here I am, here we all are in the heat of battle; In a land no man should see.

The daily death in the trenches takes a heavy toll on our men, not only physically, mentally as well. Even when there's a break between attacks, places with constant fire create random deaths; heavy shellfire often leaves soldiers behind buried in the dust. 

This never ending cycle were all put through every second of every day, a battalion would be expected to serve a spell in the front line. This would be followed by a stint spent in support, and then in reserve lines. A period of rest would follow, this cycle was fatale causing death to any who participated. However sitting in the trenches was no better, you'll be  picked off anyway by the random shellfire.

No Mans Land, the names tells it all. The open field between trenches friend and foe. There its all hand to hand combat, Don't want to lose your rifles but you cant fire it either. The sound will attract eyes which leads to the machine guns blasting you down in seconds. Its dangerous but necessary, the people who fight out there do it to rebuild our defenses. A strong defense is an even strong offense.  

I've been given a new rifle today, I believe it was someone's before me, most likely in the dirt now. The rifle is very accurate, good for long range. However the weight is tough to overcome making shots slow to reload. The bayonet is nice, close combat has a lot of casualties though. I think ill have to go to no mans land tomorrow. While rifles are good; not worth the cost of your life in the front lines. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762345 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762362 Life In the Trenches is terrible! There are Deaths Daily, Rats are taking over, and The Smell is awful!
Many men are dying to shell bursts and sniper bullets from the war. A lot of the men died the first day from being in the trenches.
Millions and millions of rats took over the trenches! There are 2 types of rats, the brown rat and the black rat. The brown rat was ore feared then the black because they would disfigure themselves by eating their eyes out and eating their livers. Men would try to get rid of these rats by clubbing them to death, with a Bayonet, and Gunfire but a single rat couple could have 900 offspring's a single year and can spread diseases and contaminate food. Last but not least, The Smell... Over 200,000 men were killed and a lot of them didn't have the luxury of taking baths and the sweat and their feet smelled awful already. Plus the smell of cigarettes, Mud, poison gas, rotting sandbags.]]> 2018-10-15 12:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762362 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762364 Man nothing's better than having a stand in war and drinking rum. And we might get breakfast today since we have the stand. But not even the silence to the stand will help me with my boredom. Even cleaning my new rifle couldn't stop my boredom. But there's nothing worse than seen a brown rat the trench. I just want to shot them rats but then the enemy would think we shooting at them. Then our stand will be over and my boredom.....and also my rum break. At the same time as I just enjoy my rum I just sit there watching the black rats eating fellow soldiers. And thinking one day that will be me. Dang I wish this war would be over already.]]> 2018-10-15 12:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762364 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762925 The trenches have been where I spend the majority of my time in the war and I wish it wasn't. There is death all around me whether we are fighting or not. I have seen many men be affected by the same brutal conditions that I have also been affected by. The bugs are everywhere you step with their deadly pathogens. The worst is the smell. I feel like I don't know the difference between the smell of life in here or the poison gas that the enemy throws at us. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292762925 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763140 Living in the trenches is terrible. There are so many deaths around me. Many men have died on their first day. You cant go five minutes with out seeing a rat. Just about everyone here has had to shave there head to prevent the lice, and this place is filled with frogs and slugs everywhere. We are woken up an hour before dawn every day to the smell of rotting dead bodies, body odor, feet, and the lingering smell of poison gas.]]> 2018-10-15 12:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763140 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763247      This war is really starting to take a toll on my body because people in the army have no chill and so you have to fight for literally anything you get. 
     Every day we have to be quiet when we come back to the trench because the rats are sleeping. The rats always run all over the place and on our faces when we're trying to sleep which is annoying because we never do that  to them. 
     What honestly gets on my nerves though is how we have to do inspection and chores in the mornings... our sergeant always has a short temper, so there's never any room for error. The worst job is cleaning and repairing the trenches, they are always super muddy an get my favorite clothes dirty which sucks. 
     The most awkward part of the war is when you run into an enemy in no man's land. The best thing you can really do in this situation is to agree to both go your separate ways and not speak of it again.
     I always use the flamethrower when I'm on the front line. It is such a useful weapon when you're attacking a group of people because it simply burns everyone to death. One consequence of having it though is that I'm a pretty big target for everyone with a gun because if they can take me out, making progress will become easier.]]> 2018-10-15 12:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763247 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763429 It has been the worst this is year in the Great War. There is death upon death upon death. It is common for the newbies to be killed first because they are always looking over the parapet. Many men are being killed because of the large shell-bursts. Even worse than the random deaths are the lice. I haven't stopped itching for the past two weeks. The nits were also getting to me, so I shaved my head. Many men I've grown close to have gotten trench foot because of the rotten trench conditions. By far the worst was The Smell. It was the smell of the dead men, the latrines, and the sweat of men on the battlefield. Yet, I haven't been able to tell the difference between the death from disease or from the poison gas hanging in the air.]]> 2018-10-15 12:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763429 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763949 I hate death in the Trenches it keep on happening frequently and so many of my friends died on the first day because of the attacks. The worse part is that the lice never stop breeding they are always on our clothes making us itchy and they also cause us to have fever n gets us really sick that some o us die.]]> 2018-10-15 12:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292763949 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764082 I am a soldier living in the trenches of World War 1, and life is worse than I could have ever imagined. Between the constant shellfire and disease, troops were dying daily. Even worse, the bodies of the soldiers were left in the trenches to rot and add to the awful odor. Thousands of carcasses cover the battlefield or lay in shallow graves surrounding the trenches. Then, the soldiers that did not get "buried" would be scavenged by those disgusting rats (some grew to be the size of cats). All of us soldiers live everyday in fear, for we don't know which day will be our last. Not to mention the weapons that are supposed to help us advance in our war are proving to have many disadvantages. Poison gas is constantly lingering in the air and adding to the stench that comes from the trenches. That isn't even the worst part, though, cause it also ends up killing a lot of our own soldiers, adding to the death toll. Life has not been easy, and I don't think it will truly get better until this "Great" War is over and I am back home.]]> 2018-10-15 12:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764082 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764208 Life in the trenches is terrible. I am a solider named Bob and I would give anything to go back home.  One thing  that makes life so terrible is the rat infestation.  There are million of rats here that contaminate the food.  If that wasn't bad enough we also have frogs, lice, slugs, horned bees, ect.  These animals are so unsanitary and they can cause diseases such as trench foot.  All of these animals plus the dead bodies, dried sweat, mud, rotting sandbags and cigarette smoke lead to the trench smelling awful. At first I couldn't stand it but now I'm getting used to it. Poisonous gas also makes this lifestyle terrible. Sometimes you can throw the gas at somebody but if it is too windy it will blow back on you. This almost happened to me but I ran away  just in time.]]> 2018-10-15 12:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764208 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764389 Life in the trenches is terrible. The smell of rotten soldiers is unbearable. We also all smell because many of us men have not bathed in weeks or even months. We are all also effected by trench fever which is caused by the infestation of lice. Our day to day life can be really boring. We all try to catch a nap whenever we can our try to bathe ourselves if we have the opportunity. we also try to read and write letters to our families back home. All I can hear in the distance is the explosions of the grenades going off. For once I would like to enjoy the pleasure of peace and quiet and not have to hear the explosions all the time. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764389 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764403   Hello, fellow people I am living in the trenches right now with my poison gas, hoping that I can take down the enemies who are causing the everyday random deaths down here due to the shell fires from the enemies. This place is highly disgusting, there are many aspects of it that I do not like but I have to be here to fight. There is a rat infestation, and everywhere you look whether it is right, left, forward, or backwards all you will see are the rats. They feed off of the eyes and the livers of the millions of people who have died and are in search of people who will die causing them to become larger than or as large as a cat. There are also many frogs, lice, and more worse things. The lice are never ending and always seem to find ways to stick their eggs in the seems of our clothing, which hatch every time us men go into the warm, hot climate. Frogs and Nits were also an ongoing issue by the river and water, causing people to shave off their hair from their heads. Oh no! Someone is coming I must use my poison gas to take them out, I will write again later. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764403 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764666
I am a soldier fighting in the first world war, I live in the trenches and many of my friends have suddenly passed away right in front of my eyes from shell fires. Rat infestation has become an enormous issue, they get to be the size of a cat by feeding off of dead soldiers eyes and livers. We have tried getting rid of them but it hasn't been successful. Life is boring here, I stand with my rifle on the lookout all day but when I fire, the shots are slow. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292764666 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292766095 In the trenches, life is terrible. yesterday, my best friend cooper died from a frog. Although my best friend died, the good part is that i get to takeover his place with using the flame thrower. I was training with it all week, and all week the bunker kept smelling worse and worse, reminding me of Coop. The colonel kept telling us there was no way to get rid of the rat infestation]]> 2018-10-15 12:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292766095 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292767917 My life sucks I live in the trenches everything sucks. Everyone around me is slowly dying. The rooms smell really bad like rotten food. I have all these chores that I have to do like set up dumb barb on the fences I keep on cutting my hands open. But we have weapons like a rifle so when we are bored we just go out and start shooting. The trenches are a scary place that I do not want to go back to I am going to remember this for the rest of my life]]> 2018-10-15 12:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292767917 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292767994
life in the trench was boring and hard because men would have to patrol no mans land to get a better look at what the enemy was up to also you couldn't move until nighttime and my fellow soldier would sniped in the head right next of me. While patrolling no mans land men from the enemy line would send a soldier to do the same and if they were to meet with each other they would have to either go run back to there sides or would have to fight in hand to hand combat. the machine gun another annoying thing because would slaughter many men.]]> 2018-10-15 12:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292767994 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292768582 The War has killed many of my friends one day you see them and another you don't. Death is a very real possibility out here especially due to the planes shooting and spotting us out. The planes could also bomb us without hesitation because they could see everything up their. The worst part about the trenches was the smell of rotting bodies and machine guns. The smell made you feel as if you were breathing in poison or toxic waste. 



]]> 2018-10-15 12:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292768582 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292768852 2018-10-15 12:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292768852 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292773695 My name is Doug. I always saw millions of brown and black rats running around in the trenches. A lot of us feared the brown rats because they would eat human eyes and livers. They could grow to the size of a cat. We would try to 🤬 the rats with guns, a bayonet, and even clubbing them. Rats could produce up to 900 offspring per year so infection spread fast, contaminating food. 
There is always snipers and look-outs so during the day we must stay hidden and we can only go out at night. whenever I can I try to get sleep but usually it would only be for a couple minutes before I was given another task. 
The smell is horrible in the trenches. rotting bodies and animals were the main source of the smell, around 200,000 men were killed and their bodies were laid down in shallow graves and the smell was still able to get released. There are several men that haven't taken baths in weeks or even months provided a nasty smell of dried sweat. There also was the smell of poison gas, cigarette smoke, feet, chloride, and rotting sandbags. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292773695 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292774054  Hey I live in the Trenches and out here there's daily deaths. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy causing random death no matter who you are and what you're doing. The smell is honestly the worst though, while outside you're stuck with a smell of rotting carcasses,

]]> 2018-10-15 12:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/292774054 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293109799 The war has killed many of my friends one day you see them and another you don't. Death is a very real possibility out here especially due to the planes shooting and spotting us out. The planes could bomb us without hesitation because they could see everything on the ground up there. The worst part about the trenches was the smell of rotting bodies and machine guns. The smell made you feel as if you were breathing in poison or toxic waste. Rat colonies were by far the worst smelling because they ate corpses and food. The rats would spread disease because they could grow in population very fast and got into things like food or medical supplies.]]> 2018-10-16 00:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293109799 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293112083 Me and my friends are soldiers fighting in the world war 1, we live in the Trenches but let me tell you how awful it is on the first day we were there so many of my friends died because of the attacks of grenades being made to explode us. The death of soldiers kept on happening frequently it was horrifying. The thing I hated the most was the lice they never stop breeding so they kept getting into our clothes that it would make us itch all the time. Sometimes they would even cause us fevers that a few soldiers couldn't recover and died from that.The worse part was the smell the main reason why this happened was because 200,000 men were killed on the Somme battlefields and their bodies we're laid down in shallow graves that it would give a horrible stench. Since some soldiers weren't able to take showers in weeks or even months it would cause them to have bad odor of sweat.]]> 2018-10-16 00:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293112083 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138500 2018-10-16 02:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138500 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138783 2018-10-16 02:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138783 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138913 2018-10-16 02:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293138913 https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293822134 The only weapon I get for now is grenades. its good because its small and easy to handle, lightweight for quick mobility. The bad things about them is the fact that I could accidently blow myself up if it was build wrong, or if it gets dropped. A single grenade can 🤬 around 5-7 people. ]]> 2018-10-17 13:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kpreissl/l2lutqri4vtm/wish/293822134