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Thank you all quiet on the western front Allah shmoop

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good talk The name's paul All bomber Who am i

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Well i'm just your typical teenager I like hanging with

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my pals knocking back a few pepsi's at the end

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of the day and writing oh i also happen to

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have a little experience with killing and a lot with

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death but more on that later if i'm telling my

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story i'm going to start at the beginning and that

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means going to the front lines All of my classmates

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were there serving the fatherland Our teacher mr canto wrecked

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saw to that he said we were the iron youth

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Makes us sound kind of indestructible doesn't it But tell

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that to ben I'd rather not see that kind of

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death again but pima certainly wasn't in a isolated case

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One hundred fifty men went to the front eighty came

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back I wish i could say that my company escaped

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death but that's Not quite How war works There was

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franz kemmerich who lost his leg and his life a

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week later I never really thought about death much before

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that But well you watch a man crying as he

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dies You might start to think about it too I

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knew other guys though was mueller He took kemmerich surprised

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boots before camera was even cold He didn't hold on

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along though it was albert crop He had some colonies

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but not even go home He's khun save you on

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the battlefield Our platoon was young but we grew up

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fast You don't really have a choice when you're forced

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to watch your friends dying Maybe that's less growing up

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and more complete suppression of emotion But how else do

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you survive a war That boy i was a sweet

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guy who wrote about his feelings Well he had to

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die for the soldier in him Could live We'd become

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wild animals We killed anything that moved by any means

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necessary Seriously not even the rats were safe And when

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it was over only thirty two from the second company

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survived But hey at least our recuperation stent was sweet

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Just eating sleeping and taken french lesson Since my lessons

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were cut short by a seventeen daily visit home turned

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out to be more than i could stomach My father

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grilled me about the front lines It was so eager

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For bloody battle stories It was right around your old

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dad's hundredth question that i realized something most people in

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my life would never understand what i have gone through

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with things i had seen the things that couldn't be

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unseen I was basically alone At least i had my

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friends to hang out with just getting i paid my

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old teacher mr cantor wreck a visit I urged him

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to tell the recruits the truth about the war Something

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tells me that won't be happening any time soon Before

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i left i kissed my sick mother Good bye I

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had a feeling i wouldn't be coming back any time

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soon So all in all Yeah Super successful trip Before

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returning to the action i spent some time at a

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training camp next to a russian prison I felt sorry

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for the prisoners as they scoured through the garbage looking

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for food Maybe in another life we would've been friends

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but well this was wartime And when i finally return

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to my company it was business as usual I killed

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the french soldier without blinking And i i mean well

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sure i felt bad but well war was war ben

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Kemmerich crop muehler all dead and then my closest friend

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and ally stanislas kitchen ski got hitting leg carried cat

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to a first aid station and tried to make him

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comfortable But the orderly told me it was futile It

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was dead I was shell shocked and i was alone

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Not only were my friends gone but i knew my

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future was hopeless Who could understand me now but if

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i'm lucky all of this will be over with soon 00:03:35.058 --> [endTime] and i mean all of it

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