Fall Asleep as a Civilian Living Beside the Western Front in World War I

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Tonight, you are not a soldier in the trenches or a commander planning battles. You are an ordinary civilian living beside the Western Front during World War I, where the distant rumble of artillery becomes as familiar as church bells and the rhythms of village life continue despite the war.

Tend your garden, bake fresh bread, gather water from the village well, help care for the wounded, and watch endless columns of soldiers pass along quiet country roads...