k as non-patriotic. They chose to pass along what was called "The Old Lie", or the belief that it is honorable and fitting to fight, and even die for one's country. This honorable status proved to be a lure to get more men to fight, a book like All Quiet on the Western Front could have proved devastating to country-wide morale and enlistment (Henningfield).
             A clear effect of war on humans shown throughout All Quiet on the Western Front is that of the body. Soldiers enter war naively in regards to bodily injury. Remarque made it clear that gruesome injuries such as severed limbs, and massive blood loss we commonplace on the World War I battlefield. The fact is that men entering war do not realize the high possibility of them becoming injured and further realize how negatively they will be affected by it. Most injuries experienced on the World War I battlefield did not merely keep a soldier out of commission for a couple days but usually indefinitely. Many men were literally scarred forever because of battle wounds (Morton).
             Another effect of war on the body shown in the novel was that of exhaustion. For soldiers, life as they knew it ended the day they put on the uniform. Normal sleeping patterns and daily activity were all changed drastically. One clear example of the abnormal sleeping habits was when the leading character in the novel, Paul, fell asleep while crawling away from a raid. The bombs had let up for a few moments and everyone decided to rest, so in the middle of a battlefield Paul fell asleep until the raid continued. A clear example of the sheer exhaustion soldiers face on a day to day basis while engaged in battle. The relentless attacks of enemy combatants leaves a man with virtually no down time and to get rest at small intervals that may even leave him in harm's way.
             Reamrque also points out in the novel that the soldiers in World War I were victims to the first use of what are...