> People had no idea what had been unleashed. <
Yep. And we saw the same thing in 1914 as WW1 began. British soldiers heading to the front said, “We’ll give the Kaiser a bloody nose, and be home by Christmas.”
And so a whole generation of British men was damn near wiped out.
“We’ll give the Kaiser a bloody nose, and be home by Christmas.”
Well they were right. They were home by Christmas......of 1918.
And so a whole generation of British men was damn near wiped out.
My grandfather immigrated to Canada from England a few years prior to WWI. Remember him talking about WWI and the fact that a whole generation of young men born in the late 1800's were decimated by WWI. England was bled white was his term to describe the losses.