Horrible war [I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2]

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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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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It was terrible and historic.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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...

Mass execution of soldiers ( conscript) who refuse to obey senseless order , use of toxic gas , and made possible the atrocities of ww2

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..

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.

That generation of soldiers was called the "Lost Generation" because so many were killed.

If you didn't want to fight and ran away, you were shot - by your own side.

It was lions led by donkeys

Let's not forget that over 99% of the casualties were male.

Hellish thing indeed.