My respect to you for remembering the people who experienced those terrible times. People like you and me. It could have been you and I pointing bayonettes at each other. It could have been us that lost brothers, fathers, friends. It could have been us that came back suffering from the horrors of shell shock or mutilated or lame or dead.
The war to end all wars they said. They gave themselves, in the hope that it would be the war to end all wars.
My Grandfather was there with the Royal Irish Fusileers, Machine Gun Corps. He came back. Many were not so lucky.
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