Another Day In IraqBy: AnonymousFor Now Be still. There are no
sounds. Not anymore. Not after the grizzly stench of bombings that
lay before the dinner table. The sounds of trumpeting voices still
echo inside the gates of every child's mind. Noises abruptly halt
the laughter and smiles of the city. Yet they've stopped. For now.
No more thundering explosions abuse the hearts of the innocent. For
now. The children come back out. In fear of the atomic packages
that fell from the stars. The gift of 'democracy' tightly laced in
ammunition. A mothers worried cries dress the streets in a somber
outfit of tears. She searches for her lost young. Her mind racing,
her stomach churning, burning with the acids of dread and panic.
Her milk is drying, dissipating from the absence of a tender child.
She breaks, like a China doll that fell from the careless hands of
a militant. Her demeanor represents the widespread poverned nation
in which she lives. Breathing, In Out The cluttered, stifled air of
a chemical soup. She drops. Falling upward Towards the only Peace
she can find. Scrambling like a cockroach in the light. She
searches for a morsel of humanity to feed the lost. The noises
return, along with the familiar smell of burning metal. Another day
in Iraq.
Works Cited-"The Trench System". Spartacus Educational. May 2,
2010 . "Another Day In Iraq". poetryamerica.com. May 2, 2010 .
"Trench Foot". Spartacus Educational. May 2, 2010 . Barbed Wire".
May 2, 2010 .
The trenches were the front lines, the most dangerous places.
But behind them was a mass of supply lines, training
establishments, stores, workshops, headquarters and all the other
elements of the 1914-1918 system of war, in which the majority of
troops were employed. The trenches were the domain of the infantry,
with the supporting arms of the mortars and machine-guns, the
engineers and the forward positions of the artillery
observers.*Trenches in the front were generally seven feet deep and
six feet wide. The front of the trench was known as the parapet.
The rear was known as the parados. The top two feet of the parapet
and the parados would consist of a thick line of sandbags to absorb
any bullets or shell fragments.In trench warfare of World War 1,
barbed wire was used expansively. To shield the front line trench,
the barbed wire was several rows deep, by both sides. Wire gaps
were positioned at different times to allow the men to have access
to no man's land. The enemies had to find the wire gaps and many
men died through getting tangled in the wire and were later
shot.*
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