Fussel describes this phenomenon in his book “'We' are all here on this side; "the enemy" is over there. «We are individuals with personal names and identities; 'he' is a mere collective identity” (Fussel Pg. 75). While this is certainly true, he forgets a crucial by-product of this idea, the lumping of the enemy into the “them” category, the writer also identified that the troops, lumping into the “us” category, begin to lose their strength . individual identities. While many soldiers might have deluded themselves by mentioning their friends on the front lines, they probably didn't last long before the limbs of those same friends fell like rain around them, pushing them further inward to protect their mental well-being. For all intents and purposes, the more time spent in the trenches the worse it became: “Prolonged trench warfare, with its collective isolation, its 'defensiveness' and its nervous obsession with what 'the other side' is doing, establishes a model of modern political, social, artistic and psychological polarization. “ (Fussel page 76). CONSTANTLY CALLED AS