Letter From The Trenches

November 2, 1916
My Dearest Virginia,

Writing this letter to you is a great quarrel to me, as I no longer shake finish off 5 fingers on my right hand. Just a few weeks past I contracted a deadly skin infection and 3 of my fingers and 4 of my toes had to be amputated or I would have died a painful death. The conditions here in the trenches are fetch tougher and tougher as the cold winter is approaching. The rats and lice have also plump worse of a problem and I am unendingly itching. I am currently on the front situation and the smell of rotting flesh is unbearable, there are corpses of our make men and also those of the enemy lying not 30 feet from our trench but it is far too dangerous to go and retrieve them. All the men in the trench, myself included, have not had a decent wash for weeks and the smell, combined with that of the wet universe is rancid. Many are starting to die of fevers, disease and the privation of food and I myself am not even convinced(predicate) if I will be able to make it finished this winter as I hear it will be the coldest and wettest one yet. I think I had better sire the solemn task of writing my will estimable as a precaution. I am mostly living off stale biscuits and it has been a while since I have had center and fresh fruit.



The war is in full swing forthwith and I have come within inches of death kind of a few times. Shells are exploding around the clock and it is more or less impossible to sleep, but I do manage just out of sheer exhaustion. Many of the solders here have attached suicide because they were in too much pain later contracting a disease, or they believed they would die before they had the luck to go home so they decided to end their low themselves. Others were more clever, you see about a month past my dear friend and one of the smartest men I know, Nelson Harris, excavation himself in the foot, for he was missing his family so much he could barely concentrate. He knew if he were injured there would be no choice but to send him home, and that they did. There...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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