Posted on 11/10/2018 5:25:06 AM PST by C19fan
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Tower of London tonight as time runs out to view the 10,000 torches installed in memory of those killed in the First Word War. Queues stretched more than 50 yards back from the '90 minutes wait' sign at Tower Bridge as crowds waited to view the touching tribute. The installation, Beyond the Deepening Shadow, will be open to the public until Remembrance Sunday on November 11. The Queen and senior members of the Royal Family are due to attend the Festival of Remembrance at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night as the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day draws nearer.
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Europe never recovered from the carnage.
All for what? Turning their country into a big mosque. Congratulations.
Battle of the Somme: How newspapers brought news of casualties home
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36656555
Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery served as a lieutenant in the First World war. He was shot through the body by a German sniper. It took him a year to recover and he then rejoined his men.
I have read and agree that he saw the truly horrible losses of WWI and that made him so cautious in WWII.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
-- Laurence Binyon, "For The Fallen"
I don’t remember the actual number anymore but there is like a handful of UK towns that lost no one in WWI. I think they are call the Blessed Towns” or something like that. In France I think there is one such town. In Germany don’t know!
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
by John McCrae
Written in Flanders on May 3, 1915
Very somber. I’m glad to see this, thanks for posting it. My grandfather was “over there” and was injured. He felt the physical effects for the rest of his life — and let us grandkids feel the shrapnel still in his arm. We plant poppies a lot of years in their memories. That variety has main petals with a mark in the center that often turn out looking like a cross.
Seeing as how that horrible war ended the Ottoman Empire the World blew its chance to outlaw Islam for good.
There’s probably more than one terrorist in London thinking “Where can I find a suicide vest?”.
My Great Uncle was wounded in WWI and was given a full pension.
This was a poor area at the time and a young man with a pension was considered very desirable by the girls. He married a girl whom my Daddy described as really beautiful but not that smart.
I was young and visited Eton, there the dead are listed on the walls of the courtyard. The list seemed endless and they were all my age, 18, 19, 20. That experience slapped me in the face.
That war killed, on average, roughly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years.
And maimed many more.
Europe has never recovered.
Their deaths angers me but I know their lives are proof of the greatest love and I settle myself down with the hope in that after the battle of Armageddon there will be no new veterans! Lots of farmers. :) That is when the prophecy of peace on earth will be fulfilled.
Now I am in mourning stage. Gonna be one of those cryin’ jag days I think. Will go to the memorial and remember with a box of tissues.
In 2014 someone arranged to make nearly 900,000 ceramic poppies (one for each man of the British Empire killed in the war) and install them around the Tower of London.
An article about that process, with some photos, is here:
Bkmk
I recommend a book called “1913”, about the world before WWI began. That war was one of the greatest, and most avoidable, catastrophes mankind ever inflicted on himself. It led to Communism in Russia, with its attendant waste and destruction of life (there and in other parts of the world), and it led directly to the rise of Adolf Hitler and an even more destructive war just 20 years later.
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