![]() The last thing I saw before putting on the mask were his pleading eyes. With a feeble gesture he tried to wrench it from my grasp then fell back exhausted. I leapt at him and in the next moment had ripped the gas mask from his face. Somehow he had managed to put the gas mask on his face with his one good arm. With the instinct of self-preservation uppermost, my eyes fell on the boy whose arm I had bandaged. I felt like an animal cornered by hunters. I had seen death thousands of times, stared it in the face, but never experienced the fear I felt then. I reached for my gas mask, pulled it out of its container - then noticed to my horror that a splinter had gone through it leaving a large hole. My eyes began to water and I felt as if I would choke. The gas was so thick now I could hardly discern what I was doing. I crawled over to him, ripped the sleeves of his coat and shirt open and started to bind the bleeding part. I kept digging with my bare hands, ducking my head every time a shell exploded nearby.Ī boy to my side was hit in the arm and cried out for help. A steel splinter broke the handle of my spade and another knocked the remains out of my hand. Something struck my back where I carried my gas mask, but I did not pay attention to it. Then like animals, we burrowed into the earth as if trying to find protection deep in its bosom. We automatically mounted the machine gun for action. Our advance came to a stop and after hesitating a few minutes we drew back while the artillery fire followed us, ripping large gashes in our formation - soon the French drumfire engulfed us, the air was filled with gas and flying pieces of steel. If you want a picture that belongs to you to be removed from /r/pics then please file a copyright notice here.Ĭlick here to find more specialized picture subredditsįrench shells began to hit to the right and left of us, leaving human forms writhing in agony. Please mark spoilers for current movies/games/books with spoiler tags. We require new users to post original content and not common pictures from the internet.Īll posts by new users require mod approval in order to weed out spammers. Serial reposters may be filtered or banned.Įstablished accounts will be banned if they willfully ignore the posting rules. Reposts of images on the front page, or within the set limit of /r/pics/top, will be removed. No false claims of ownership (FCoO) or flooding. No submissions featuring before-and-after depictions of personal health progress or achievement. Any racism, bigotry, or any other kind of hate speech is strictly prohibited and will result in a ban. Submissions are only allowed from one of the approved image hosts. No personal information, direct links to any social media, subreddit-related meta-drama, witch-hunts or missing/found posts. No pictures with added or superimposed digital text. No screenshots, AI images or pics where the only focus is a screen. Rule 0: All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.
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