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Trench Warfare

By: Julie Gareton. Trench Warfare. W. What is trench warfare?. Men in ditches No Man’s Land Form of shelter. Attack Plan. Fix trench Wait for enemy attack Huge artillery and firepower. Life in the Trenches. Death Rats, lice, infestations Freezing Unsanitary Diseases Smell.

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Trench Warfare

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  1. By: Julie Gareton Trench Warfare W

  2. What is trench warfare? • Men in ditches • No Man’s Land • Form of shelter

  3. Attack Plan • Fix trench • Wait for enemy attack • Huge artillery and firepower

  4. Life in the Trenches • Death • Rats, lice, infestations • Freezing • Unsanitary • Diseases • Smell

  5. Use of Barbed Wire • Protection • Slowing attacks • Reached into No Man’s Land

  6. Why I fight for peaceBy: Cpl. Cloy Richards how dare lady liberty shit on our gravesI watch my best friend get blown to piecesthen watch the monkeys on capitol hill throw us around like fecesgoddamn please, i deserve more respect than thatwhen it rains i can still feel the shrapnel in my backlook at me, I'm the poster boy for insanitycuzi've killed so many innocent Iraqi'sbut how would you feelyou think you could dealwith this pain I call lifeI doubt it, you might could trybut end up on the wrong end of a bottle and end up ending yo lifeyou'd be halfway to killing yourselfthe same place as me I'm just a veteranwhat can I say?im not a real Americannever worked a real jobjoined the marines at age seventeennever even paid taxesonly made minimum wagea dollar sixty-six an hourand a lifetime of guilt and a lifetime of rageto live with the rest of my daysi hope god forgives me for my waysi only lived to serveand pay homage and stay trueto the red white and blueiain't black but i understand the price that they paidnah I wasnt given AIDS, raped or made a slavebut I've been kicked to the curb, kicked in the ribs, and spit in my faceall from a common enemy, what a disgrace

  7. Works Cited • "Cloy's Story." Grassroots America 1. Web. 29 Apr 2010. <http://grassrootsamerica4us.org/CloysStory.html>. • Haden, Scott. "Life in the Trenches During World War I." Suite 101: Insightful Writers. Informed Readers. Sep 5, 2008 : n. pag. Web. 29 Apr 2010. <http://ww1history.suite101.com/article.cfm/life_in_the_trenches_during_world_war_i>.

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