text: February 21st 1916 Verdun, France the German army launched a terrifying artillery attack against the French, they launched around 1500 artillery shells every minute for 10 straight hours, 1 million shells in total. The French hide in the trenches with no way out, some cried for help, others prayed to god while others stood there in absolute shock. One of the soldiers lying in the trenches was a young soldier, Pascal Bourdon, hem and his battalion were hoping for a break from that hell, buildings were turned to ash, everything around them was ablaze and hope had been lost. Pascal in order to remain sane started conversation with a friendly soldier, they talked about their lives, their homes and their loved ones. But still the German artillery kept falling, they knew their chance of survival was low, at this time Pascal choose to finally accept his faith he knew he wouldn’t survive this hell. He knew this for everything around hem was either in ash or ablaze, there was no life, no trees and not even a single piece of grass. Pascal pulled from his left hand pocket a pack of cigarettes, he offered the friendly soldier who kept hem company one before lighting his own. While smoking he started talking on how the trenches were missing something, something he couldn’t put his finger on, the friendly soldier giggled and said “What more could we be missing other than water, rations, ammo and guns?”, but Pascal had no answer and yet that feeling stayed with hem. The artillery kept getting closer and closer, they prepared for their fate. The Germans were too far away to shoot and to charge the enemy with the amount or fire they were under would be certain death. Then finally a artillery shell hit the friendly soldier, his body was turned to pieces in seconds, his helmet flew into the lap of Pascal, it was only when he started using the soldier’s helmet has an ash tray that a sense of achievement overwhelmed hem, he finally found what he though was missing in the trench, has this sense grew he knew that his sanity was lost.