100 Years

[Cybermat47]

100 years ago, the guns fell silent on the western front. The four years of slaughter that took the lives of over 17 million servicemen and civilians was finally over. But lives would continue to be lost to PTSD, and those who survived would be forever changed.

Today, 100 years later, we remember the fallen, and reflect on their sacrifices. We remember the soldiers who charged from the trenches again and again, and those who held the line again and again. We remember the sailors who fought in the line of battle and under the sea. We remember the men who flew above the trenches and cities, photographing and bombing them, and those who shot them down.

We remember the merchant sailors who struggled to get their precious cargo where it was needed. We remember the firefighters who doused the flames of incendiary bombs, the ambulance drivers who rescued the victims, and the doctors and nurses who did all they could for the injured and dying. We remember the reserved occupation holders, whose unglamorous toil made everything possible. We remember the innocents, caught in the crossfire of emperors and kings.

We remember the horrors and tragedies that came afterwards and that we know today, as those who did not learn from history plunged the world back into the hell of war, again and again.

But perhaps saddest of all, we think of the horrors and tragedies still to come.

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

An interview with Herrfried Münkler on what the past has to teach for our modern present. We live in a postheroic time that once again is a turning point and is marked by one dominant hegemon withdrawing, with unclear, not yet known structures following him. But lessons of the end of WW1 - and where this end failed - can and should be learned.

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[Platapus]

The war to end all wars... until the next one.

[Sailor Steve]

As long as grown men can resolve their differences by convincing young men to kill each other, and as long as young men are more than willing to be convinced. it will never end. Old men, convinced of their own rightness, are also convinced that it is their right to take what they think is rightfully theirs and to punish those who see it differently. Young men are convinced that they are immortal, and it's always going to be "the other guy" who dies, and burgeoning hormones make them want to pick fights in schoolyards and on street corners. Combine the two and you will always have the ingredients you need to make war on somebody, usually somebody you've never even met.

"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
-Attributed in various forms to William Tecumseh Sherman, though in later life he spent a lot of time scouring old newspapers to fine some quote, because he wasn't sure himself whether he said it or not

[mapuc]

Maybe wrong place, was thinking on our World War One-thread.

After having seen a lots of documentary and read lots of stuff on the internet. About WWI before and in the beginning of WWI

I have come to the conclusion.

The Dynamite was there
The Fuse was there
The match was there.

The only thing that needed to be done, was someone lighten the match and set fire to the fuse.

Markus

[Platapus]

Be wary of old men/women eager to send young men/women off to war.

[August]

And be more wary after the war ends that you don't loose the peace. The even greater destruction of WW2 could have been avoided had the victorious WW1 allies treated the defeated Germans differently.

[Dowly]

Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old' documentary has been released:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...l-not-grow-old


Those not in the UK can watch it here:
https://nofile.io/f/ASCC6KXQ5Bz/TSNGO.mp4

[Jimbuna]