Over the Top

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Over the Top…

Yes! After months of hanging about we have only got 10 oh I’ve just been told the nine minuet countdown, it’s amazing my hearts really pumping I can see my fellow soldiers, friends, brothers all around me, a couple really wishing they hadn’t enlisted in the army.

The sergeants walking up and down behind us waiting to give the call, a friend of mine that I’ve been really close to in the past few weeks has just popped up beside me chattering on about how many Germans he’s going it get, “seven minuets” “you hear that only seven more minuets” yeh course I heard it, I don’t see why we cant just go, the odd minuets just giving them time to prepare for us.

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The commanding officer is continually asking me if I’m ok, I can’t work out why; I’m no different to anyone else here. There’s no time to worry about silly things now the one minuet preparation phase is initiating, silence hit the trench like mustard gas rolling through, within a split second you could see a tear in the eyes of your friends.

The suspense was painful, people are a bag of nerves, people being sick, people taking a look a pictures of loved ones…little do the know it will almost certainly be their last.

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