The measure of World War One deaths (2)

The measure of World War One deaths

World War One:  21million wounded, 16 million deaths. but how much is it?
9.8 million military personnel died on British, Russian, French, Italian battlefields, millions of men wearing different colors uniformes but thinking in the shades of what, pain and fatigue made the same grey.
6.8 million civilians died in emptied cities, with their minds filled with nightmares.
But, again, how much is it?
Imagine in your mind one body laying down on the ground, than imagine another one with its feet above the head of the first one and then a third one in the same position, and a fifth one, a sixth one and so on to form a long line.
The average height of a man is about 5'6" and doing some maths (5.5x16.000.000=88.000.000) that makes 88 million feet of dead bodies, which is almost 17 miles.
Now, imagine driving from our school to Ronkonkoma, and instead of the white lines on the Long Island Expressway, seeing all the people who died in World War One forming a 17-mile-long line. This is how much 16 million deaths measure.