world war one

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him," as the king of Belgium Baudouin I once said. The whole idea of war is very effective on not only those directly participating in it, but also on the rest of society surrounding the war. War alone can destroy the morals and ideals of the average mind. It leaves a permanent effect on …

…the comrades whom he can relate to. "I belong to them and they belong to me, we all share the same fear and the same life."(Reilly 103). There seemed to be a gap building between the soldiers involved and those not involved in the war. The people not fighting could never truly understand the way the soldiers felt. "Adventure for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it"(Remarque 104).