Joshua Levine

You know, you had a sort of weird sort of communication.

And that's actually now I think of it sort of widened itself out.

in terms of the routine in the trench, in the frontline trench.

Because you would have, first thing in the morning, you would have stand two.

So everyone's on the fire step.

Everyone's on the fire step.

And that was the most vulnerable time.

But there's almost something sort of ritual like or religious about it, that everybody would get up and almost pay their respects to the other side.

And they were doing it to you as well.

And you'd have what they called very euphemistically the morning hate, which was artillery fire, which would come in the morning from both sides.

Again, ritual is almost like clearing the throat in the morning.

getting it out the way.

And then they'd stop so that either side could have breakfast.

There are certain things you do not do.

I'm being a little facetious because, I mean, obviously, they were trying to kill each other.

But at the same time, there were rules within, you know, within it.

And you didn't, you know, that was a rule.

And so, you know, there was a lot to get used to.

The trench had a life of its own.

You were living...