Receiving Letters In The Trenches

During life in the trenches the soldiers had to find ways to keep their morale up. They did not have too many options to do that. One if the things that was very important to the troops was their food. Even though a lot of times, the conditions of the temperatures left the foods molded and rotted. Receiving letters from their families and friends was equally as important in contributing to the sanity and well-being of the soldiers and their families. The therapy of writing letters and sending them back home not only kept them up to date on the lives that awaited them, but the communication gave them some hope, even if it was just a little.