By: Ashley Long

http://www.harris-academy.com/departments/history/Trenches/GillianR/Gillian%202.htm

Trenches

http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-i/christmas-truce.htm/printable

http://www.vlib.us/medical/ramc/ramc.htm

http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/there-died-a-myriad/

http://military.discovery.com/history/ww1/somme/somme.html

The Trench System

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrenchsystem.htm

Trench Foot…

…an infectivity of the feet caused by wet, cold, and unsanitary conditions.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfoot.htm

Barbed Wire

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/trench_popup/barbedwire.htm

http://costello.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/ahs/library/swenson/ww1.html

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/trench-warfare.html

http://www.1914-1918.net/intrenches.htm

Another Day In IraqBy: Anonymous

For Now

Be still.There are no sounds.

Not anymore.Not after the grizzly stench of bombings

that lay before the dinner table.The sounds of trumpeting voices still

echo inside the gates ofevery child's mind.

Noises abruptly halt the laughterand smiles of the city.Yet they've stopped.

For now.No more thundering explosions

abuse the hearts of the innocent.

For now.The children come back out.

In fear of the atomic packages thatfell from the stars.

The gift of 'democracy' tightly lacedin ammunition.

A mother’s worried cries dressthe streets in a somber outfit of tears.

She searches for her lost young.Her mind racing, her stomach

churning, burning with theacids of dread and panic.

Her milk is drying, dissipatingfrom the absence of a tender child.

She breaks,like a China doll that

fell from the careless handsof a militant.

Her demeanorrepresents the widespread

poverned nationin which she lives.

Breathing,In

OutThe cluttered, stifled air

of a chemical soup.

She drops.Falling upward

Towards the onlyPeace she can find.

Scrambling like a cockroachin the light.

She searches for a morselof humanity to feed

the lost.

The noises return,along with the familiar smell

of burning metal.

Another day in Iraq.

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