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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns. ~Wilfred Owen [Killed during the Battle of the Sambre(1918)]
I find it odd that through the many documentaries, specials, news reports, movies, television mini-series that people just seem to forget about the First World War. I think it is sad that in Washington D.C. there isn't a more remembering monument to the first generation of Americans who went over seas to fight and the many who never came back. I understand World War II was larger in scope but World War I was more horrendous and confusing.
Every generation that helped better the world or gave the ultimate sacrifice is great I think.
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I find WW1 very interesting actually. I've always liked machine guns and trench warfare and the way the war was fought. It seemed like THE 20th century war.
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Stuck with Civil War tactics but modern weapons that werent used to their full extent or purpose.
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First ever war to use poison gas!
The 4th image looks like a civil war picture.
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On July 03 2009 16:16 Tekin wrote:
First ever war to use poison gas!
The 4th image looks like a civil war picture.
French soldiers on a firing line.
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On July 03 2009 16:06 FragKrag wrote:
I find WW1 very interesting actually. I've always liked machine guns and trench warfare and the way the war was fought. It seemed like THE 20th century war.
more like a 4 year TvT to me....
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On July 03 2009 16:12 Disregard wrote:
Stuck with Civil War tactics but modern weapons that werent used to their full extent or purpose.
Civil war tactics? I don't believe they were civil war tactics, more like the traditional movement based combat.
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On July 03 2009 16:28 imBLIND wrote:Show nested quote +On July 03 2009 16:06 FragKrag wrote:
I find WW1 very interesting actually. I've always liked machine guns and trench warfare and the way the war was fought. It seemed like THE 20th century war. more like a 4 year TvT to me....
LOL THIS. Seriously i read somewhere that either side would gain something like 5 feet a day, and sometimes occupy the same trenches which they had been shooting at a week before.
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
The ANZACS 
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If everyone in the world understood each other, there wouldn't be this sort of thing ):
But what do I know, I'm only a fucking A-level student 
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Read the lyrics of a song about the utter failure of Churchill when trying to secure an island against Mustafa Kemal.
Cliffs Of Gallipoli
Hear them whisper voices from the other side
Hear them calling
for the both sides friends are resting side by side
They will never leave our hearts or fade away
Live forever
They were far too young to die in such a way
How many wasted lives? How many dreams did fade away?
Broken promises they won't be coming home
Oh mothers wipe your tears your sons will rest a million years
Found their peace at last as foe turn to friend and forgive
And they knew they'd die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turn to dust
Hell is waiting
Where the ocean meets the sand
Cliffs of burden
where the soldiers rushed into a certain death
[Cliffs Of Gallipoli Lyrics On http://www.elyricsworld.com/ ]
At the shoreline blood of heroes stains the land
Light a candle
one for each of them who fought and died in vain
There is no enemy there is no victory
Only boys who lost their lives in the sand
Young men where sacrificed the names are carved in stone and kept alive
And forever we will honour the memory of them
And they knew they'd die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turn to dust
How many wasted lives? How many dreams did fade away?
Broken promises they won't be coming home
Oh mothers wipe your tears your sons will rest a million years
Found their peace at last as foe turn to friend and forgive
And they knew they'd die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turn to dust
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged positions which must not be contested.
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Valhalla18444 Posts
this war never happened quit spreading lies
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Nice pics. Reminds me of how crazy war is. Just hordes of countryman organized together to kill people from other nations for their cause. Each soldier for the most part struggling to keep his sanity through all the brutal moral challenges, for the greater good. Plus conscription... that's another layer of ugly. Politicians deciding what is the greater good and putting people in jail for not fighting....
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On July 03 2009 16:02 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Every generation that helped better the world or gave the ultimate sacrifice is great I think.
are you saying the world was bettered by the first world war? for europe this is certainly not the case, it ended its age. europe was far more civilized at the beginning of the 20th century than it is now. But great job at tearing itself apart and helping propulse the american century.
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All Quiet on the Western Front anyone?
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aww pics.................... this war was a disaster ㅠ.ㅠ
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There is a very good documentary done by the BBC in 96, called"The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century". It goes over 8 hours so it is more indepth than any other documentary I've seen on the subject, though obviously its no replacement for a book. The most f*cked part is where they discuss post traumatic stress disorder or whatever they called it at the time, its quite shocking really.
I think I heard WW1 best characterised as 19th century tactics with 20th century weapons, can't remember who said it, but it seems to make sense
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On July 03 2009 18:24 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
this war never happened quit spreading lies
you're sooooooooo funnnnnnyyyyyyyyy!!
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Read the lyrics of a song about the utter failure of Churchill when trying to secure an island against Mustafa Kemal.
A slightly misleading introduction
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