How Did Soldiers Feel In Ww1?

Scared.   It was the first war using industrialized weapons (machine guns, mines, tanks, gas, airplanes, etc.).  Soldiers on every side were attacked from every direction:  Planes dropped bombs from the sky, soldiers shot rapid fire machine guns, mines exploded from the ground, and deadly gasses filled the air). The men were not prepared for the amount of death and destruction they witnessed.  The numbers of people that could be killed in a matter of minutes was nothing like man had ever seen before.  New terms were created during this time, such as "shell-shock" and "basket case."   Today, shell-shock is what we call post-traumatic stress disorder.   Basket case does not mean the same thing today as it did back then.  Today, a basket case is an inappropriate or insensitive term used for someone who is mentally ill or unstable.   During WWI, soldiers used this term to describe soldiers whose bodies were so mangled they were "sent home in baskets instead of stretchers."   For the first time in history, weaponry was used that was meant to blow human bodies to pieces, and they did, by the thousands each day.