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Horrible war [I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2]

The 1914-1918 War was arguably the most horrible of all wars at least in my opinion. If a man was in a an infantry battalion and ordered into an attack, his chances of survival were about 80 to 20 against. Fliers in the RFC had an expected life span of 2 weeks. After 6 weeks they were veterans.
At times, 1 in 4 merchant ships crossing to or from the UK were torpedoes by submarines.
Hellish thing, war.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
The WW1 museum in Kansas City has a life-size trench recreation. No where near the extended size of the real trenches, but realistic enough to imagine what it must have been like to live there and go over the top and assault the enemy's line.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M
Kansas City, MO has America's finest WW-1 museum. Located at the Liberty Memorial, next to the old Union Station and (Hallmark) Crown Center.

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Zonuss · 41-45, M
It was terrible and historic.
caesar7 · 61-69, M
Yes...so true...when the commander called out for the men to get out of the trenches during heavy fire in order to advance. Can you imagine the feeling? Knowing that your chances of survival are slim but you had to do what you were trained to do.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
And horses were a mode of transportation. That's why when the Aussies showed up on them at Beersheba the enemy waited for them to dismount so they could shoot them. The Aussies didn't get that memo. And charged the f#ckers.
@Thevy29 The last great successful cavalry charge of modern warfare...

..the Poles also did it in WW2 against german tanks..that one didnt go so well, but you gotta admit they had some fkn balls to do it!
It was industrial slaughter, and the men who were in charge of sending these kids to their death were miles away from the fighting.
Whole towns lost a generation of young men and for what?
@FairyGirlGemma To cement the positions of the ruling elite forever...
luctoretemergo · 61-69, M
My dad fought in WW2 - very rarely talked about it. He had a box of pictures and a couple medals he received. If he saw me looking at them he'd say "put those away"...he grew up in the depression, then fought in that war...when he used to say "what are you crying about?" or something like that, it took me a long time to realize he wasn't just being a jerk to me! Frankly people b*tch and moan about how bad things are today, and worse - we dismiss "the old" as disposable...but what they endured and fought for....I'm very grateful for.
FaeLuna · 31-35, F
It was definitely a gruesome time in our history. It was so horrific that they thought it would end all wars forever.

If only they knew it would later be called World War 1...
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@FaeLuna Yes indeed. And now we have a new crop of idiot politicians rattling sabres.
Julien · 36-40, M
Mass execution of soldiers ( conscript) who refuse to obey senseless order , use of toxic gas , and made possible the atrocities of ww2
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Julien I am
Julien · 36-40, M
@RhondasMum I grew up in a small town stuck between 3 military cemeteries British French and also some German soldiers ... less we forget .
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Julien Yes, all sides suffered.
Nobody wins a war...the victors are murderers as are the vanquished...but the responsible parties meanwhile sit at home in comfort and absolve themselves of all wrongdoing and guilt...

...war is a great evil..
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Mandalorian not sure if 'murderers' applies. All are victims - except the politicians and war profiteers
@RhondasMum innocent people are led to kill by the guilty parties who sit safely at home and wash their hands of all guilt..that is what I'm saying...
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Mandalorian I agree with all of that.
I suspect infantrymen today in a battlefield have an even lower chance of survival if state of the art weaponry and technology are available to the opposing side.
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@BiasForAction Hopefully, we'll never see a major war between two equal modern armies
That generation of soldiers was called the "Lost Generation" because so many were killed.
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters @BridgeOvertroubledWaters yes, indeed. 30,000 British casualties on the first hour of the Battle of the Somme, 17,500 killed in the first hour. Sheer slaughter. I think the Germans lost half a million casualties in that 4-month long battle, and about the same at verdun.
@RhondasMum there must have been a lack of men for the women
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters Indeed so. I remember visiting women with three or four death pennies on their mantelpiece where husbands, brothers or sons had died
Glossy · F
If you didn't want to fight and ran away, you were shot - by your own side.
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Glossy Indeed - that was in most wars. Just murder.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
It was lions led by donkeys
Speedyman · 70-79, M
The problem was that the settlement afterwards made the Second World War pretty inevitable@RhondasMum
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Speedyman Perhaps. Historians are divided over that. If Germany had won, the world would have been a much worse place.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
Yes but if we look at the settlement for the Second World War we didn’t make the same mistakes which gave rise to Nazism@RhondasMum
Glossy · F
Let's not forget that over 99% of the casualties were male.
RhondasMum · 61-69, F
@Glossy They were indeed.
SW-User
Hellish thing indeed.

 
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