re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?

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I can not figured out what this means.

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if means you were one of the guys living in the trenches on the front line and would try to advance your position by going "over the top" of the trench and run towards your enemy to get to another position to dig another trench

it was basically suicide and if you turned around and ran back, your officer would shoot you