Lauren+Haber

 **British artillery troops passing village bombed by enemy aircraft -This picture prooves to me how difficult it was for the troops. Everywhere they went there was distruction.**


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**French Blue Cross Society hospital for sick and injured horses -To Me this picture shows that they not only care for the people but also animals. The animals also played important parts in the fighting and many people relied on them as well.**


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|| -Every day the soldiers risked thier life no matter what for. They could have fallen to thier death but still continued to fight for thier countries ** ||
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 * **Austrian mountain troops scaling a rock face

**Salvation Army cooks baking pies -The people came together to support and feed the soldiers who had no one else to rely on at the time. It must have been hard to be away from thier families and they helped them to feel more at home.**
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 **Serbian peasants fleeing -Innocent people had to flee from thier homes because of the distruction and horrors of war. They did nothing wrong and yet had to leave thier homes and families.**

 **British autos with cannon in France - These deadly weapons were probably not a shocking sight for people living in times of war, for them it was probably a very common thing.**

 **HMS Queen Mary, sunk at Jutland 31 May 1916 -Not just fighting on land, when fighting at sea many ships were sunk. Regardless of where the fighting was taking place many innocent lives were taken.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Austrian trenches near Jasionna -It must of been hard for the troops to be in the trenches for days and some watch thier friends die right next to them. It must have become the normal day for the courageous soldiers.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Inside of ammunition car showing 400mm shell. Batteries A and C, 53rd Coast Artillery Corps, north of Mailly, France, May 15th, 1918 -To see the sizes of these weapons is crazy, they cause so much distruction and killed so many.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**T German trenches in the Vosges Mountains -It must of been very difficult to seek shelter in trenches. They didn't know if they were safe, at any moment something life changing could happen.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**King George V of England with General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff -This was a difficult time to be in control with alot of responsibility and decisions. People relying on them to keep them safe, they had so many peoples lives in there hands.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Major General Charles P. Summerall, Commander, US Army 5th Corps -Hard time to be in control one decision made wrong could cause disaster. Many people were looking to him for direction and he had to make the right one or so many people were killed.**
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<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Machine gun mounted on an aircraft -The thought that weapons were found everywhere is scary to me, on land, sea, and air. Probably for people then they were used to it not knowing what would happen at any time.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Recruiting for the "Holy War" near Tiberias, 1914 -This was probably one of the scariest times for those people. Not knowing if at that moment they would be taken away from their families and would have to risk thier lives.**

<span style="background-color: #708ffb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Camouflaged long range guns of US coastal artillery -Anything was done to not be attacked by opponents. They had to take cover anyhwere they were, there was no place that was safe from weapons. It must have been a very scary time.

French patients playing cards -The lives of many soldiers were saved by the generous nurses who cared for them. If it wasn't for the nurses many of the troops probably wouldn't have been saved.**