War Letters

The perils faced in this war were unimaginable, with all the battles and loss of life. So it's not much to ask to receive a letter from home, or send a letter, so your family would know that you're okay. But this was almost too much to ask because of the lack of technology. Letters would take weeks or months to get to family from their soldier and vice versa. Soldiers must've felt so impatient and hopeless trying to send news to their loved ones and their families must've felt desperate for news. Sending letters in this era might not have been the best method either. Postal service even now is sometimes unreliable with letters being sent to the wrong people or possibly getting lost. This could cause some major confusion and grief if families were to not receive a letter. They would think that their soldier was dead when probably he was not. It could also cause the opposite problem of families thinking that their soldier was alive because of the time lapse of letters. Since they took so long to deliver families could be reading a letter that said that the soldier was fine but in reality they were dead.

Dogfight (planes, not dogs)

These fights that happen in midair are absolutely insane, and in fact a death wish if you aren't skilled enough. This probably takes years of practice to even be remotely comfortable doing these airplane acrobatics, including flips, turns, and loops. Not to mention the fact that someone is shooting at you the entire time. I played the game dogfight on that link, and the only reason I was winning was because I never let go of the spacebar to shoot. But pilots in WWI did not have unlimited ammunition. They had to make sure every round was going to count and hit the enemy plane fighting them and try to shoot them down before the enemy had a chance. And because these planes had both a pilot and a shooter, you had to make sure that each were very skilled . If the pilot wasn't as experienced or vice versa death seems guaranteed.