[C19fan]

Awe inspiring how the Great War still has such an impact in the UK.

[FreedomPoster]

Europe never recovered from the carnage.

[Lent]

All for what? Turning their country into a big mosque. Congratulations.

[BenLurkin]

Battle of the Somme: How newspapers brought news of casualties home

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36656555

[yarddog]

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.

[IronJack]

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

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"

[vetvetdoug]

Last month I spent three weeks in England and spent a good amount of time in some smaller towns like Thrapstone, Titchmarsh, Rothwell, Warrington, Burtonwood, and Huntingdon. Every town had a monument to the soldiers killed during WWI. Small towns of a population of 200 suffered almost 20 casualties each. I wasn't aware of the carnage of WWI and this brought it to my attention.

[Cloverfarm]

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.

[Nateman]

Seeing as how that horrible war ended the Ottoman Empire the World blew its chance to outlaw Islam for good.

[huldah1776]

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.

[Cubs Fan]

Brits lost the third world war through Muslim invasion complete with a Muslim mayor of their capital city, now ethnically cleansed of a white majority.