[SLB]

Salute to all our veterans from all wars.

[Graybeard58]

"The 26,000 Americans killed in the battle at the Meuse-Argonne "represented the greatest loss in a single battle to that point in the nation's history,"

Battle of Gettysburg Date: July 1-3, 1863 Location: Pennsylvania Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: George G. Meade Confederate Forces Engaged: 75,000 Union Forces Engaged: 82,289 Winner: Union Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate)

[agere_contra]

The principal causes of the war are still subject to historical debate.

Only to revisionist German historians. The Germans/Prussians were the aggressors in 1914.

[tonycavanagh]

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shell;

And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

[syriacus]

I doubt the French thought that ejection of the Germans by US troops during WWI was "senseless."

Why do the French think that US troops liberating them was AOK, though US troops liberating Iraqis is BAD?

Do the French Muslims envy the fact that the US troops gave Iraqi Muslims a shot at a decent future?