re: Interactive graphic shows WWI UK Commonwealth casualties for each day of war

Damn those were some large mines. Carlin says the Russins were firing 25,000 to 30,000 artillery shells PER DAY early in the war. That's crazy.

Turkey entered the war to gobble up some of the German lands and to spread the Germans even more thin.

Hell there was fighting in Asia as the Japs got all opportunistic.

Yes sorry. iPhones are not conducive to historical scholarship on the fly.

reminds me of george carlin's bit on shell shock in wwi ...

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One of the dumbest wars of all time. And the wrong side won.

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o is that so

your beloved Ireland would not be Ireland if that was the case you mug

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trench warfare frick that

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Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg

The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver — what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe —
Just a little white with the dust.

Green Fields of France (No Man's Land) by Eric Bogle

Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you forever 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

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I don't know, maybe because it was fricking run by the British at the time? Hence the Easter Rising happening during the war?

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If you really think Ireland would have been better off with the allies losing you are delusional. But we already know you are.

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U.S. WWI casualties: 320,518
U.S. WWII casualties: 1,076,245

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That's True but the U.S. was only in WWI for around year so imagine what those casualties would be over a 3 year period like in WWII