Posted on 07/17/2007 2:32:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
These photos prove just one thing, war IS Hell.
ROFL!!!! Can you put a gas mask on him?
Ever read Alan Clark's The Donkeys? It makes you want to reach into the book and throttle Sir John French and Douglas Haig.
Ping of interest!
No, but I did read "The War in Outline," By Basil Liddell-Hart. He's scathing in his critique of the entire Allied generalship; and he's not too easy on the Germans, either. For example, he describes the inexplicable lethargy and amazing incompetence of the British leadership at Gallipoli, which turned an easy victory (and likely war-winner) into a disaster.
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two-week bombardment in which 3,000 heavy guns sent more than four million shells95 a day per gun.
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He’s just taking the Heineken back to the country orgin.
“What si also amazing are the huge areas of soil where nothing grows..no vegetation...not even weeds.”
That was probably due to the early variants of Agent Orange. It was used on farms to kill unwanted vegetation, like along fence lines.
Body counts are for readers of history and viewers of TV news. Most Soldiers take no glee in causing the death of another human being. Killing another person is something that must be taught to most. Many are struggle with demons brought about by killing someone, whoever necessary the pulling of the trigger was. My dad, Sgt Maj Gamecock, was an 11B with 2 CIBs, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star and loved talking about being in the Army for 20+ years, yet never spoke about pulling the trigger.
But what do I know, I'm busy cleaning up a lot of these issues with the current generation of warriors.
It’s hard to imagine the kill rates in WW I. Our own War between the States was unnecessarily deadly because Napoleonic tactics were used with mid-19th Century weapons. WW I was a case of Napoleonic tactics used with 20th Century weapons.
I have a book written by a survivor of the Great War (“Over The Top”, Arthur Guy Emepey - 1917) that does a good job of describing life in the trenches. It seems it was continual wet, mud and fleas. This became the norm.
It’s hard to imagine today.
The boredom and misery was only broken by horrific bombardments, attacks and counterattacks, none that seemed to accomplish much but add to the casualty lists.
F’n funny bro!
I did try the gas mask. It just didn’t look right.
The western European nations have done an excellent job ob preserving the WW I battlefields. Because it was essentially a static, trench war. much of the war was conducted over a fairly small area. Indeed, it is just about possible to walk along the ENTIRE trench lines, from Belgium down to the Swiss Alps.
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I suspect you know what I’m talking about.....
Yep.
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