All Quiet on the Western Front Reflection- Anna Cline

The movie, All Quiet In the Western Front, is about the hardships of World War I. It showed a horrifically wonderful example of trench warfare, mainly from the German view point. I learned the simple strategy of trench warfare by observing this movie then being lectured about it. I learned that all the strategy is that one side charges then retreats; the other side charges and retreats. Reading it on paper and it almost sounds methodical. When the men charged they were practically mowed down by the machine guns and barbed wire. However, these inventions were not what killed the most men. Disease was the real murderer. Simple wounds, that could have been healed quite easily, killed. The stopping of the spreading of disease was not helped by the hoards of rats that invaded the trenches. The rats just increased the chances of soldiers catching disease.
These men watched their allies, friends, and enemies get cut down, and they just kept charging, daring death to reach for them. From observing this movie, I don't know if trench warfare brings out the bravery of men, or the foolishness.