Dear Mom & Dad Paris France Dec 14 1914 Christmas is arriving and I wanted to write a letter telling you how Im holding at base camp so far. First and form most I arrived here in France safe and sound. The Trip took one week. Anyways the war is beginning and im getting ready to take part in action soon. I have to take a 5 day training session before we are put into to battle. I find it very difficult and tiring. I already miss home so much. Life feels very different here. I will try again and write to you guys as soon as possible. Hey its me again! I am currently in battle right now. As you can see we are living in the trenches of the battle field. I will tell all of you my view of these horrible trenches. Okay lets start. The wall of the trenches are briefly 10 to 12 feet deep. Their this deep so that enemy’s can not shoot at us. There are duckboards used for the surface so we can not sink into the soft ground. There are large amounts of sand bags which are called parapets. They cover us from our backs to front from enemy fire. This is good because there is a slimmer chance of us getting shot at. We use a fire step to step on to get a comfortable aim when shooting. Barbed wire covers the front of our trench so that no enemy could intrude into our base. These barbed wires stretched some 30 feet in height. I think the most useful thing about the trenches is the zig zaggy shape. This was important so that if an enemy got inside he wouldn’t be able to fire straight and kill all of us. Well that’s all the main idea’s of how a trench looks like. I hope you guys all understand.

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