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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
As good as movies are getting with special effects they still will never, ever come close to being able to portray what it was really like. Going on battle field tours around the Ypres Salient a few years ago, you kind of get a better feeling of what happened there. Still you can't feel the cold the same way the soldiers did because your not dressed entirely in wool like they were. Your not hearing the constant shelling. Its almost impossible to portray what these men went through on film.
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I asked one Vet what the worst part of the battlefield was. He looked at me for a second and said the smell.
The smell of cordite and other explosives, the fact that you and your buddies haven't bathed in weeks, that when a person gets shot their bowels release, or worse yet they're ripped open. The smell of rotting bodies. The smell of mud. The smell of diesel and gas and sweat and fear.
He said he didn't mind what he could see, because he could dodge it, but the smell, he said he knew what hell smelled like