When you step outside, you can already smell the rotten flesh of men who have already died. After it rains, it is very muddy. The trenches are so, so muddy, All of the men have to sleep in the mud. You can sometimes see the rats. The men must take away the dead bodies, or else the rats will eat them.
Everyday men die because of the barb wire fence.
The enemy used mustard gas on us yesterday, three more people died. The Germans have more people than us because half of ours have already died. We have been in war for so long. I don't know when I will get to come home. Hopefully it will be in a couple of weeks.