War is the real suffering of every soldier

Virginia 2022-03-22 09:02:39

As far as the war is concerned, the cruelty of war can only be understood by your brothers in the same robe. When the cannonball whizzes over the head, there is no sound when it explodes, because the sound does not travel as fast as the cannonball, so there is always a blast when it explodes. Silent. With the enthusiasm of defending the country, the children who were still underage went to the battlefield. They did not feel the cruelty of the war in the training camp. At that time, they still felt that they were going out camping with friends on vacation. Even if you go to the battlefield and enter the trenches, you will complete the assigned task. You feel that this is your mission. You can do whatever you can, and everything is a pleasure in suffering. And when I see the people around me being shot by bullets, and my body is incomplete after being blasted by artillery shells, when I am about to rush forward before I die, I can only think about whether I can still live? And the German soldier you are fighting against is also a 17- or 18-year-old boy, a heroic and patriotic boy, and the mood at this time is also helpless. War is really meaningless. When everything was over, I felt lost, as if I was unemployed. It was difficult to return to my hometown to find a job after being discharged from the army, and I was not understood by my family. The real war is far from the sword-wielding you imagined. It is neither heroic nor magnificent at all, but trivial and broken. I thought that there were some people who objected to "1917" overly beautifying war, which would cause people's misunderstanding of war. Now I realize that the face of war is indeed not the grandeur and grandeur of the movie, not everyone is a hero, one soldier and one soldier. They are all just doing trivial things, pushing the war machine forward, sad and irritating, killing innocent patriotic young people on both sides, breaking families, and everything has no reasonable destination. The documentary shows the mood, sorrow and joy of ordinary soldiers very well, and being able to feel their feelings makes me feel real suffering.

ps. In the past, people really had bad teeth. I saw that many soldiers had rotten teeth. They were still so young, and the quality of life was really reduced with bad teeth.

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  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.