i notice there’s a few brits here. any of you interested in world war 1?
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no thanks, once was enough.
I am into military history, but I am an American. Do I count?
fazer-"no thanks, once was enough. " LOL
@fazer: Very well said! lol I am not British, but am a history major~ But what aspect of the war do you want to talk about? Strictly military?
“We serve neither King nor Kaiser!”
yes you all count. I meant to post this in O.T. but i’m still getting used to using the forums controls. sorry. I suppose the underlying causes of the war, the impact on the future of the outcome and who the real bad guys were is what I’m interested in. lol
My Great uncle won a VC at Ypres. He was very poor and asked for money instead which was refused. He later sold it for £20. Its now worth £100,000 and is in a museum with his oil painting. Everything about his story - a long one - is testament to the utter stupidity of that war. And we don’t seem to be learning.
My Great uncle won a VC at Ypres. He was very poor and asked for money instead which was refused. He later sold it for £20. Its now worth £100,000 and is in a museum with his oil painting. Everything about his story - a long one - is testament to the utter stupidity of that war. And we don’t seem to be learning.
Great song re what you just said is “No Man’s Land” aka “The Green Fields of France”
My Great Grandfather was a marine in the trenches he was gassed and wounded and fought in most of the major battles that the US particitpated in. Chateau Thiery, Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, Aisne-Marne. i wish i’d gotten a chance to know him better
I never knew my great uncle at all, one of the great tragedies of his life was that when he got back to the land ‘fit for heroes’ there was no work. He had a civil reception at the town hall, a street named after him and was painted in oils to hang in the local castle (Towneley Hall in Lancashire). After all that he got onto his motorcyle and was killed looking for work accross the county. This from a man who had single handed captured a machine gun post, taking six men and officers prisoner, that had been stopping his batallion advancing. Perhaps the biggest irony of all was that he was not fit for millitary service but got so sick of getting white feathers put through his door for not joining up that he used what small amount of money he had to pay a surgeon to correct his health issue.