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To: Flavius
New footage of World War I shows war-torn battlefields

I don't mean to nit-pick but isn't that redundant?

2 posted on 11/07/2010 1:53:43 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (every bad idea once seemed good to someone.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Amazing that this comes out 90 years later. Sending this out for others to see. Does anyone know if or when it will be shown here.


12 posted on 11/07/2010 2:12:37 PM PST by certrtwngnut
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To: the invisib1e hand
I don't mean to nit-pick but isn't that redundant?

Not really.... WWI set an entirely new standard for "war-torn." Look at post-battle pics of something like Gettysburg or Antietam, and you see an actual field, full of dead guys. But look at the muddy craterscapes of WWI .... and you don't even see fields.

"War-torn" takes on a whole new meaning....

25 posted on 11/07/2010 2:53:19 PM PST by r9etb
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To: the invisib1e hand

I think that some of them were merely war-stained or war-stretched.


38 posted on 11/07/2010 4:01:48 PM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Bump for later.


66 posted on 11/08/2010 6:59:30 AM PST by Amntn
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Not really.
Some of the battlefields of WWI looked like the surface of the moon - only muddy. Its truly a horror. You need to look at the progression of aerial photographs of Fort Douaumont at Verdun - it goes from a pentagonal concrete fortress to a moonscape as artillery slowly erases it.


69 posted on 11/08/2010 7:43:39 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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