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life in the trenches in ww1 sucked. it was cold and wet and muddy and soldiers had to stay there for days if not hours on end. it wasnt a fun happy time in which people were like "yay its cold and wet and muddy lets splash in the puddles" it wasnt like that. soldiers sometimes walked and walked and walked through trenches and their boots were filled with dirty cold water that often had lice and fleas and rats in it. these creatures were everywhere in the trenches. the soldiers could not change their boots that were filled with infected water. their feet went all soggy and diseased. they got trench foot and it was disgusting and painful. they could not cure it sometimes they had to cut off their feet.

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