Dulce et decorum est patria mori

I disagree that it is sweet and good to die for your country. "Dulce et decorum est patria mori" means that it os sweet and good to die for ones country. I dont agree with this statement because i dont think its right for someone to die for their country. It is a very brave and honorable thing for someone to do, but if i was in that situation i personally wouldnt die for my country. I have a lot of respect for anyone that would die for their country. Your life can be taken from you at any moment, so why would you want to sacrifice yourself for your country.

All Quiet

"Someone shot him point blank in the stomach." Muller is also dead. He was shot in the abdomen and 'lived for half an hour' in 'terrible pain'.

Detering saw a cherry blossom tree and went a took a branch off of it because it reminded him of home. He wandered off and no one saw him for a while. Detering gets 'caught by the field gendarmes'. It doesn't say that Detering gets killed, but if a soldier trys to run away and gets caught, you get killed. 

"Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and out eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we still live"

Kat goes out to get food and when he comes back he falls. It's just Paul and Kat now. Kat shin is smashed and Paul wraps him up. "The wound begins to bleed fast." Kat isn't very heavy so Paul takes him up on his back. Paul and Kat talk for a while and Paul thinks he's going to be ok. "He is stone dead" Paul says. Paul is thinking that he has fainted but he knows that Kat has passed. Paul finally notices that he has a splinter in his head. His only friend that he had left is gone. 

WWI

I learned that WWI was a very serious and traumatic event in our history. The conditions in WWI were very bad. There was such things as deafening noises, extremely cold weather, trench foot, rats, lice, and awful sanitation. There were many forms of gas used on the battlefield for attack. Shell-shock or combat stress caused PTSD. Symptoms were tiredness, irritability, lack of concentration, and headaches. Mental breakdowns often occurred from shell-shock. If you had combat stress you were most often executed. Soldiers in WWI were killed for insubordination, desertion, and refusing to fight. I expect All Quiet on the Western Front to be about men in the war fighting for their lives. The will probably face many struggles along the way and witness many deaths.  

This photo shows someone who has trench foot. It is a very serious condition and could result in amputation.

Blog 3-3

Paul runs into his old teacher at a bar. His teacher was the one who encouraged him to sign up for the war in the first place. They start talking and his teacher starts saying all this stuff about the war, acting like he knows whats going on. His teacher starts telling him if you do this and that the war will be over. He was talking like he knew what was happening in the war, when he doesnt know one thing about it. This makes Paul is upset because this isn't the teacher he remembers before the war. He doesn't like how the teacher is saying these things about the war because he has never experienced it.