The Trench Teacher
ACT I The whistle blew at 0400 hours on November 4th, 1917, and Father Marcel Lefevre—once a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in the Auvergne, now a corporal in the French Infantry—picked up his rifle and walked to the parapet. The trench smelled of wet earth and cordite and something else, something metallic and old, like blood that had been sitting too long. Below him, no man's land...
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