I have walked the battlefield, and the cemeteries. Words truly fail. To follow the trench lines, to try and imagine what it was like..is near impossibel to do. The minds can’t grasp it. What si also amazing are the huge areas of soil where nothing grows..no vegetation...not even weeds. The huge artillery bombardment left so much chemical residue in the soild that nothign can grow there.
I hear ‘ya. I can’t imagine the misery of living like that for months on end, with no end in sight. The pictures can’t possible convey how wretched it must’ve been. I think you’d almost want to die, rather than go on another minute.
Kipling lost his only son in WWI.
“What si also amazing are the huge areas of soil where nothing grows..no vegetation...not even weeds.”
That was probably due to the early variants of Agent Orange. It was used on farms to kill unwanted vegetation, like along fence lines.