LETTER TO MY FAMILY Dear mother and father and all I now take the pleasure in riteing you a few lines explaining what a typical day is like on the front line so I can express my feelings. To begin with, I will introduce you by writing our daily routine. In one month, each soldier spents four days in the front line, four days in the support line to pick up more rations and eight days "resting". These periods of "rest" are often taken up with army tasks such as fetching and carrying wood, wire and water to keep the trenches in good order, digging, filling the sandbags, replacing duckboards, strengthening the barbed wire defences or carrying ammunition. When we are holding front-line positions we have to be continually alert to the possibility of enemy attack. This situation is very frustrating for the soldiers who are alive because you feel very nervous since the uncertainty of disowning your destiny is very big. Wether you will survive or die that day, is something only God knows. However, the long periods of inactivity in the appalling trench conditions are also hard to endure.