Whin I Et bm tH mlr trenches
:fler my first charge I could not sleep
'.v. a Ions time afterward, for remom-;c-.-imi
what that fellow looked Ilka
and how rny bayonet slipped into him
and how lio screamed when he fell.
He had his lega ai:d his neck twisted
under liliu after he got it. I thought
about It a lot and it got to be almost
a habit that whenever I was going to
sleep I would think nbont him and
then nil hope of sleeping was gone.
i Our company took a German trench
I lnt time mu along with another
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; company four hundred pri: oners. We
I t0 retire because the men on our
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Shies did not get through and we
were being flanked. But we lost a lot
of men doing it.
When we returned to our trenches
our outfit wus simply all in and we
were lying mound in the front line,
like a bunch of old rags in a uarrow
alley, None of us showed any signs
of life wept a working party that
was digging with picks and shovels at
some bodies thai had been frozen Into
the mud of the trppeh.
I used to think 11 the Germans were
big and fat and strong, and, of course,
some of the grenadier regiments nre,
but lots of the Boches I saw were
little and weak like this fellow I ot"
in my first charge.
