Just a little cognitive dissonance looking at WWI photos in color! (Do these guys look French, or what?)
Posted on 09/26/2006 5:03:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Thank you.
Welcome home brother. My grandfather and greatgrandfather on my mother's side both fought for Canada in WW I. Both lied about their ages to enlist. The greatgrandfather was KIA. My grandfather was shot, gassed and suffered severe concussion. He was left for dead in no man's land at Lander's Field for 3 days. When they went to bury the dead, someone noticed he was still breathing and was eventually evacuated to England. Semper Fi.
Wow! What a story. Such silent courage. And you're right: grace.
Under your logic, the Jews deserved the holocaust. They weren't smart enough to avoid it.
Simplistic, but despicable, reasoning.
(Off topic - I had the privilege to know the late Ernst Jünger personally.)
I do not deny that many very capable men vanished during the world wars, but we were not talking about individual fate, we were talking about genetic pools, biological selection and last but not least about Darwinism. Therefore you have to focus on those who survived and who rebuilded Europe. If we stick to the moronic argumentation of that so called "history professor" from our friend from Texas, they all would be biological junk.
This is complete nonsense since it is rather the other way around. Just two arguments to give proof to my statement:
-For millitarists: After 1918 the SS, that was for sure a real "elite"-troop in millitary regard would not have been possible, if all "alpha-males" would have been wiped out between 1914 - 1918. (Just to put things straight: I hate the SS more than anything else but they were for sure "good" soldiers.)
-For pacifists: After 1945 the breathtaking rebuilding would not have been possible with a genetic degenerated populace.
Love it or hate it: Darwinism (although it is awfully cruesome) works and the European gene pool was cleaned through terrible selection in a genetically "positive" way.
I have a relative killed in WWI but don't know anything about him Is there an official registry I can go to to look him up?
So many gave so much. My great-grandfather survived the war. I wonder what the world would be like today if WWI had turned out differently. We are, now, so far removed from it that I don't think we can imagine the difference.
Thank you so much for that link....really enjoying it!
Thank you for the link. I'm not sure if I've ever seen color pics of WWI. At first, I thought the pic you posted was of modern reinactors.
The funny thing is that American birth rates are also declining since many years:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm
It is indeed true that the European population development is negative, but America is following closely. Personally I do not think that this has anything to do with genepools but with female emancipation. As far as I know your women do not differ that much in this issue with ours.
Beside of this your racist blahblah about Muslim genetic degeneration (YOU are not speaking about their ridicolous religion but about their semitic and hamitic blood) does not impress me much. Racial mixture is not bad - the best example for this thesis are the US.
It is funny to me that you call us cowardice since western Europe is simply following its own interests (if we talk about Iraq) that sometimes differ from those of America. Our politicians and populace did not see the dictator in Iraq as a real threat. On the other hand we helped you in Afghanistan as good as possible since there we saw a real danger and we understood your fierce reaction after 9/11. There are large European contigents there just because we wanted to help America as a friend and stand by its side. We have for sure no other interests in this godforsaken place.
Therefore: You should not insult your friends who help you because they follow their own interests sometimes.
I don't always go up there, I will make a point to go this time. My husband is there in the columbarium so I can drive to the areas I wish to visit.
Do you have family or friends there too?
Most state archives maintain a veteran's record service, with enlistment records, military service questionnaires, and pension records. There is probably also some War Department info available from the U.S.
I'm most familiar with Civil War records in GA, AL, and SC, because I wrote my thesis on that topic, but most states have similar collections of records pertaining to all wars in which the U.S. was involved. The Feds hold even the old stuff pretty close, it's hard to get U.S. service records directly without a SF 180 (hello, John Kerry!) even for WWI.
Try the information desk at the appropriate state archives.
What was Jünger like? His book is very good.
Just a little cognitive dissonance looking at WWI photos in color! (Do these guys look French, or what?)
Very simple: A really outstanding man. :-)
Which bood have you read? He wrote quite a few.
His memoirs as a junior officer at the front.
what state was he from? what unit did he serve with?
here is a link , may be something there, not sure.
http://www.usigs.org/library/military/links/
This is the grave of the Marquis De Lafayette, taken on July 13, 1917.
Is this the first ever anti-aircraft artillery?
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