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 World War 1 was the first major war to use artillery and machine guns. The Allies used trenches that protected them from the enemy. At first the trenches were shallow ditches but eventually grew into elaborate systems or earth works that shielded the men from the enemy. By 1914 the trenches stretched from the North Sea all the way to the border of Switzerland. Staying in the trenches was also a nightmare because of artillery, snipers, and poison gas killed thousand of soldiers. Trenches were usually 7 feet deep. Most of the people in the trenches had 2 emotions terror and boredom and the armor weighed about 60 to 77 pounds.
 * SOLDIER **

Dear Diary, Today I just got the newspaper and I was just informed that the new machine guns are being delivered to my position tomorrow. Today I have dug at least a half a mile of trenches. Usually if we aren’t digging trenches we are watching out for the enemy. But eventually the so called “ditches” became our homes, and they were only 7 feet deep. Most of the day we were all scared because the artillery snipers and poison gas. And our armor weighed 60 to 77 pounds!

We all established a three week rotation schedule and it went a week in the front trench followed by a week in the support trench and that was followed by a week in the reserve trenches, during this third week we could relax with sports concerts and plays keeping our minds off of war. Nearly all of our vegetation was destroyed.

Today my partner almost died because the machine gun and the long range rifles made it almost impossible to move. Most of the attacks happened either right before dawn or right at dawn so we had to be ready for almost anything to happen, and i was just informed that the trenches stretched from the north sea all the way to the border of Switzerland! Man those trenches were always so hectic because you never knew what was going to happen next.

Resources: __Hamilton, John. Trench Fighting of World War 1__ __The Trenches: Symbol of the Stalemate__ http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/ch.1trench.html