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re: No other country has a cemetery here, but we have cemeteries there.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:32 pm to WinnPtiger
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:32 pm to WinnPtiger
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my list includes seeing the changing of the colors at Lafayette’s tomb in Paris. I think it’s important to continue rituals like that for the West’s collective sense of itself
At the Somme, you can trace the old trench lines by the cemeteries dotting the farmland. Some have just a few soldiers, others tens of thousands.
I have a bizarre, dark fixation with WWI.
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:28 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I have a bizarre, dark fixation with WWI.
Somebody has to. The sequel is immensely more romanticized.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:31 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I have a bizarre, dark fixation with WWI.
as do I. I think in large part because it’s such a large blind spot for Americans, particularly because we aren’t educated very well about the topic. (or weren’t)
in all seriousness, EA and DICE taking the bold move of making a WW1 game 8 or so years ago sparked my fascination, and it’s a borderline obsession now. so many parts of our modern culture can be directly traced to August 1914
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:04 am to RogerTheShrubber
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At the Somme, you can trace the old trench lines by the cemeteries dotting the farmland. Some have just a few soldiers, others tens of thousands.
Just found that. Thanks. I’m going to dig into that. I love stuff like that.
I’ve followed the bombing runs on the Ploesti refinery during WW2. You can find maps and written accounts of the raid. Then look at Satellite view and see the bomb craters etc.
Same with the Arc Light raids in Viet Nam. The farmers there have made fish ponds out of some of the bomb craters.
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