If you find Richard's descriptions of the First World War difficult to conceive or believe, here's a scene from Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory providing a good sense of what these battles were like. Men slaughtered moving toward the opposing trench: running into machine gun fire and artillery shells.

Battles like this occurred for four years

MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION. The slaughter of young men.

Please take a look--if you have the courage to do so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V kUKAtzE0r0&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqp246dxVPDAsMZjdlRdkEsJ&index=4

Mei Ha
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