ocr: Down in the Dirt. Alter the first thrust by the Germans in 1914, World Warlslowedtoa crawl. Both sides dug trenches, sometimes only a fewyards from each other. For the next severalyears many men would die righting over a very small piece of ground. Soldiers struggled not only against the enemy butalso against disease. The renches were a perfect breeding groundf ror disease and sickness that causedr - many deaths.
