All quiet on the Western Front.....

[Gerald]

....as haunting images of the Great War's battlefields are revealed before Remembrance Day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lefields.html#

Note: Thursday, Nov 10 2011

[Falkirion]

RIP to all the brave men from both sides who lost their lives during the conflict.

And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Falkirion

And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.

The before and after pictures of Fort Douaumont near Verdun gives one a sobering glimpse.

Good post this one, thanks. In today's hussle bussle life it's easy to over look what men went through in the 14/18 war. I often google map these places and I am humbled by the French and their refusal to plow these land marks under, I'm not sure the British would have been able to muster that level of respect.

I read an interesting little article on an Amazon review where a man describes the first world war as a european civil war, he even went as far as describe WW2 as the same, a civil war.

I find this point of view very interesting because of the fact that Britian was in 1914 and uptil the 50s, still teaching school children about their Saxon heritage. How quick we all are to put aside who we all are for war.

[Jimbuna]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

[papa_smurf]

I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.

On friday I will paying my respects at my towns war memorial -we shall never forget.

[nikimcbee]

A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?

I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)

My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.

[STEED]

I shall note the two minute silence tomorrow and on Sunday as well.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...62&postcount=8

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Oberon

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...62&postcount=8

Thanks for re-posting that. I remember when you posted it originally.

[MGR1]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?

I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)

My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.

My Great-Grandfather James Milne was Master-at-Arms on the HMHS Brittanic:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic

Luckily he survived her sinking. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be here!

No photo of him though.

Don't know about the rest of the family.

Mike.

My maternal Grandfather died for King and Country 24 October 1918 - killed by influenza while waiting to be posted to a front line battalion from the Canadian Expeditionary Force replacement pool in France.

Mom was born the following May and Grandmother was denied her meager widow's pension as he had not died in combat.

Perhaps the most pointless, futile, ill-managed and far-reaching war since 1648 and maybe since ancient times; one where the consequences continue to haunt us even today. We should never forget but we should also strive to understand what happened without glorifying or romanticizing the thing.

[Respenus]

/rant

What a pitiful country I live in. People can't be bothered to remember something as unimportant as the First World War. All they care about is drinking themselves half dead on a Friday. I realise that we fought on the loosing side, but that doesn't mean that our boys died in vain, especially if you consider that a third of all Slovenians were forced to live under Italy, which soon turned in a fascist regime. There is always a small group of older gentlemen that try to commemorate the fallen, but that's about it. Considering that we have an excellent Isonzo front museum, one would think there was more interest.

In any case, I try and pay my respects to the fallen on my own.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

A question for everybody. How many had family the fought in WWI? What did they do? Did they survive?

I've been re-kindling my interest in WWI. I bought the video series "The First World War" (Channel 4)

My Dad's side of the family got out of Europe right before the War started (Austrio-Hungary) and moved to Brasil.

Check my previous posts Jason.

[Gerald]