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.

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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.