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=**__The Trench__**=
 * lydia wingard**

Men were ordered to dig trenches by hand (shovels), these trenches would provide protection from opposing troops. Frontline trenches were usually 7 feet deep and 6 feet wide. They were to dig while in the middle of war. The trenches had spread from North Sea to the Swiss Frontier within a few months.

//"Death was everywhere in the trenches, at any time of day or night it could be your corpse laying in the mud, whether through the shell bombardment, poison gases, disease or a random bullet from a sniper."//

Millions of trench rats were inside of the trenches, some being the size of a cat. They would feed on human remains, and during war, could not easily be killed. A pair of rats can produse 900 offspring a year. Its said that the rats may have known when an attack was about to occure; because they seemed to disapear before most attacks. Because of dirty clothing it was hard to get rid of lice lining on rhe soldiers. Nearly impossible to get rid of in the trenches. Lice would lay their eggs on the mens clothes, and were able to survive the wash, or treatment that were given. Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever. Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks. (direct link from paragraph 5 of Rats and Lice [])
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 * Types of Trenches:**

//The font Line Trench:// had barbed wires, and served as a post for machine guns. They had three rows that covered 200-500 yards. //Short Trenches//: dug from the front trench into no mans land. //Communication Trenches:// dug at a angle to the frontline trench, and transported men, and supplies. //Water logged Trenches:// would form if soldiers dug down deep enough into the surface,(if on the Western Front) Because of sea levels. these waters would get to be 4-5 feet deep, and could cause damage to soldiers bodies then causing trench foot which led to amputations.

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