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that when you're going to try to break through these trenches,
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what they have is what they call creeping barrages.
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They start trying to--and lots of people died with
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what the Americans call friendly fire--they try to coordinate
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the shelling to go in advance of the people going over the top
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and then trying to carry sixty pounds--pick up sixty pounds
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some time--worth of stuff on your back,
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and go down into these horrible craters full of all sorts of crap,
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and dead floating rats,
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and dead floating bodies of human beings,
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and to try to break through.
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Then you run into machine guns.