WORLD WAR I BRAVERY
The trenches on one side with the Germans, and on the other side with Americans. The fire exchange intensified, separating them a very narrow no man’s land. A young German soldier attempting to cross that no man’s land has been shot, and has become entangled in the barbed wire. He cries out in great anguish, in pain; and he whimpered periodically. Between the shells all the Americans could hear him scream. When one American soldier could stand it no longer, he crawled out of the American trenches, and on his stomach crawled to that German soldier. When the Americans realized what he was doing, they stopped firing; the Germans continued. A German officer realized what he was doing, and he stopped his men from firing. Now there was a weird silence across the no man’s land. On his stomach, the American made his way to that German soldier, disentangled him. He then stood up with the German in his arms,…
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