Ernest Hemingway – Shared His World War I Experience Through His Writing

Though Hemingway served in the U.S. Army, he was not a soldier. Hemingway served in WW I working as an ambulance driver. And he even shared his experience through his writing. He wrote that on an occasion when he was transporting survivors of a blast that befell in a factory that made ammunition, he had to pull out the bodies of the dead from the building.

Recalling the incident, he said that although they tried to collect full bodies of the dead, there were mostly just body parts scattered about. You really need to have a strong stomach to pursue a military job.