Helpful Posts: Let us not forget those who gave up their "Todays" for our "Tomorrows"…. In all the conflicts around our world since and happening now ...
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22nd February 2014, 07:15 PM #1
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100 years on from the Start of WW1
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22nd February 2014, 11:41 PM #2
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Re: 100 years on from the Start of WW1
Thanks for that, David. I recently subscribed to BBC History Magazine to get their whole centenary coverage, and am very much looking forward to it
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23rd February 2014, 12:14 AM #3
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Re: 100 years on from the Start of WW1
Since the beginning of time...old men argued and young men died.
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23rd February 2014, 12:48 AM #4
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Re: 100 years on from the Start of WW1
Very nice image! I have just finished a BBC Audio Book on the period 1910-1919, which of course included the First World War and its aftermath.
War is horrible but, what is even more horrible is the unnecessary slaughter of soldiers, due to inept leadership, such as happened during the U.S. Civil War Battle of Antietam where soldiers were slaughtered trying to cross "Burnside's Bridge" when a few yards up or down stream, the Antietam Creek could have been forded. The British losses at the WW-I Battle of the Somme were also a disgrace!
I feel so darn strongly about this because I almost became a casualty due to the total ineptness of a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander during the high seas boarding of an enemy trawler off North Vietnam. Only luck prevented me from being wounded or killed...Last edited by rpcrowe; 23rd February 2014 at 01:10 AM.
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