Posted on 11/10/2018 6:39:56 PM PST by Nextrush
What do you think about during the two minutes silence? I used to think of men at war, and hear in my head the shouts and the clash of arms. Now I see a narrow street of small houses at dusk. A young man in army uniform is embracing his wife and little children in a lighted doorway. He will not return.
I recently learned that, on the first day of commemoration, in 1919, the silence was often far from silent. In many places, when the traffic and the factories stopped, the sound of uncontrollable weeping could be heard in many towns.
Nearly three quarters of a million young men had died far away... they'd had no funerals. For the first time, the bereaved had an opportunity to grieve properly.
This commemoration is above all about the First World War......
I knew. when I first learned about it, that the 1914 war was a chasm between us and another world.
I rather like the look of the world that had been lost-calmer, slower, more solid than ours. I had a feeling we were now a smaller people than we had been.....
...I am so often told that those who fought in 1914 did so for our freedom, that we are far less free as a people, from all kinds of government interference, than we were before the war. It was 1914 that began the era of heavy taxation, surveillance, regulation and general snooping and bureaucracy which now stifle us.
It was also 1914 that swept away the restrained and quiet world of yesterday, and the great, stuffy cumbersome empires of Austria, Germany and Russia, replacing them with the slick murderous modern empires of the Nazis and the Bolsheviks. Was this progress? Give me the Kaiser and the Tsar, any day.....
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That, perhaps, would explain the following verse of “Gods of the Copybook Headings”:
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Europe lost its best via emigration to the New World. The best that remained was mostly slaughtered in World War I. What was left was lost in World War II, and now, the floor-sweepings of the gene pool are busy surrendering to the Caliphate!
Sic Transit Gloria Munde!
We have never recovered from the loss of so many true warriors.
Yes. Very relevant! It’s been about 30 years since I last saw that poem.
The United Nations wants a one-world government in less than twelve years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3704999/posts
In 1935 a British writer named Arthur Mee coined the term "thankful village". These were villages or towns or parishes in the United Kingdom and Ireland who had lost none of their sons to the Great War. Of all the thousands of cities and towns and hamlets and parishes only 85 have been identified as Thankful Villages. Of those, only 14 are classified as doubly thankful in that the also lost none of their sons in World War 2.
In France, where the same survey was also conducted, the number of "Thankful Villages"? One.
The Tsar was a grandson-in-law to Queen Victoria. Any blood relationship he had to her was much more distant.
Thanks for the correction - the startling physical resemblance he had to George V and the fact that they (and Kaiser Wilhelm) were first cousins led me to assume that Victoria was his grandmother.
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