"An infantryman cannot combat shells. All he can do is get away or be dug in so deeply that none will injure him. I had been scared several times in my life before, but when I heard those shells coming over, I really began to know what fear was...If I ever wanted to be about the size of an ant, it was when I crawled through that hell of shellfire and slid over onto that sunken road.
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Closing my eyes I could still see those mangled and bloody bodies of my buddies, and I began to wonder what it was all about." - Sgt. James Nelson Platt, 12th MG Battalion, 4th Div., American Expeditionary Force, Meuse Argonne, 1918. #ww1 #reality #war #noforthefaint #stayzero #zerofoxtrot