Posted on 10/11/2021 8:24:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Early this morning in 1915, the German military occupying Belgium shot aid worker Edith Cavell at Brussels for aiding the British war effort.
The matronly nurse had been condemned only the day before by a German military court for helping Allied soldiers escape from behind German lines — charges Cavell readily admitted. The British chaplain who attended her the night before her death reported her saying (not actually her last words, but recalled as her parting sentiment, as it were):
But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward any one.
So naturally, she immediately became the Entente’s bloody banner of the barbarous Hun, helping dramatically ramp up recruitment for the other team’s set of moral cretins.
The thing is, the Germans actually had a point. Cavell ran a nursing school in Brussels, and courageously stuck around when the Germans smashed through Belgium as World War I opened. She’s sometimes remembered as getting in hot water for treating the wounded regardless of nationality, but she did a lot more than that: she got involved with an underground railroad funneling Allied soldiers back to enemy countries....
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A beautiful mountain in the Canadian Rockies near Jasper, Alberta is named after this woman. When I was there in the early 1970’s it had a glacier hanging from it that was called Angel Glacier. Haven’t been back so I don’t know if the glacier has receded or not. I camped overnight with friends on one of the foothills across the valley from Mt. Edith Cavell after a day hike in. It is one of my favorite memories.
“...helping dramatically ramp up recruitment for the other team’s set of moral cretins.”
Wow. Can’t really approve of this view.
There was a girl scouts summer camp named after her near me.
CC
WWI was a huge depopulation effort by TPTB and bankers who funded both sides.
The actual people that were duped and turned into fodder in the trenches aren’t the moral cretins.
The idiots running things against the germans were the last of the non professional soliders, often inept royalty installed into command positions that ran through men like water because they didn’t know strategies and didn’t care.
Angle Glacier is still there, but the Ghost Glacier to the left suddenly fell off the side of Mount Edith Cavell in 2012.
https://forums.clubtread.com/31-alberta-hiking/42607-rip-ghost-glacier-mt-edith-cavell.html
I first visit the meadows across from Edith Cavell in 1971, and last in 2016. Great place for a day hike.
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