Sarajevan Eldin Kurbasic wrote the status about the war in which he explained what the war really looks like.
He wrote about the war from military experience and not from the perspective of history, from the experience of a common man who was thrown into the blood, shrapnel and someone else’s interests.
War for beginners (from the perspective of a soldier):
– Parents are watching the hill from the window as it gets devastated by thousands of mortars and shrapnel and they know that you are there in the action. While they are watching this, they pray to God for you to come back alive, even as disabled. Just alive.
– You do not have to be hit by bullet or shrapnel in order to die in a battle. Detonation also kills when your organs burst from the blast impact. The first symptoms include loss of consciousness and vomiting blood.
– You return from the action on the field, and you get a duty to go to your friend’s wife, mother and his two-year old daughter to tell them that their husband, son and father got killed. It is recommended to bring sedatives to give them immediately, but they scream into tears as soon as they see you with two companions, since you do not have a smile on your face for sure. Then you take a second to imagine what would be reaction of your family in that situation.
– Exchange of dead. Now, that is a special discipline of psychological torture. You roll over 120 corpses to find the body of your relatives. I will not go further into details.
– You find out that bleeding from the femoral artery is about half a meter in height when the bullet / shrapnel tears it apart, and you are putting another man’s hand on it, while you are pulling his tongue from his throat with your other hand in order to prevent choking in shock that occurs immediately.
– You have about 10 seconds to stop your friend’s pneumothorax. If you do not have a real bend and those rubber envelopes, cellophane from cigar boxes can be helpful as well.
– Speed of a shrapnel is about 1 km per second, it is flying in irregular orbit around its own axis, has irregular shape made of several layers of metal, with a heat about 200 ° C and tears tissue, bone, veins and arteries in a second.
– Hemorrhagic fever: If you are in the pit and you got used to rats in the size of cats, while looking at them as they walk on nylon over you, your kidneys probably will not get used to a disease called hemorrhagic fever, which is very common among soldiers in the trenches.
– Coniferous tree starts breaking by itself at a temperature of about -17 °C while you are on the lookout.
– When from the Emergency suggest you to wear layered clothes, it goes on a whole new level when you are dressed like that for a month, and sometimes even more, in a mud up to your knees.
(Source: fokus.ba)
