[irishjuggler]

What a disastrous stupid war. All sides were gung-ho and itching for war, but 4 years and 20 million deaths later, there were no winners. On a personal note, my great-great uncle was shot and killed by the Germans.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My grandfather grew up in Danzig, Germany. He fought the Russians on the eastern front, was captured, and because a Russian POW. He escaped and walked back to Danzig. I’ve got the memoir he wrote of his time as a soldier and POW.

[Leaning Right]

> What a disastrous stupid war. <

Yes, indeed. It would have been better to leave the deserters alone, and instead shoot all the generals.

[Fiji Hill]

What a disastrous stupid war. All sides were gung-ho and itching for war, but 4 years and 20 million deaths later, there were no winners.

We should have stayed out of it.

[pierrem15]

The planning office of the Imperial General Staff warned the British high command that a major land war in Europe would cost thousands of casualties per week and that the whole 100,000 man strong British Army would be gone by December 1914 if the war lasted that long. And so it was.

My great grandfather fought on the Somme in 1914, 1916 and 1940. My wife's great grandfather as a Pole volunteered for the German army in 1917 and was KIA outside Warsaw that year. His son fought against the Germans in 1939 and was a POW.

The Europeans entered the 20th century at the pinnacle of human progress and political power and threw it all away, turning a good part of Europe into a human slaughterhouse.

[dfwgator]

If only Britain, and subsequently, the US, had stayed out of it, both would be much stronger today.