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maybe it was Isaac Rosenberg or one of them said that,
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well, "where's the finest of Devonshire?
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They're hung up, they're hung up, hung up on that old
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barbed wire"--because it was easy to get caught up on the barbed wire and
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simply perish there.
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And there's your basic real live trench, with the helmets.
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The French troops, by the way, who'd gone into the war
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wearing--this is true, I couldn't invent this--
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bright red pants that could be seen through the mists by troops changed
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to more subtle colors by the end of the war,
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to give them a better chance.
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And, so, that was the trench, and when you were going to attack