re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?

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This is a great series to listen to. You hear and read about WW1, but when you try to really wrap your mind around it, it’s almost impossible for our generation to fathom. The war really made no sense, in which millions of men died for nothing. Take that and add the new age weaponry against old school tactics and you get those astronomical casualty results.

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People think this is cowardly for me to say this, but I don't think any generation from the Boomers on would fight in that war. Maybe for the first year, but Battle of the Somme time, you and your friends would kill your superior officer to avoid jumping over those trenches, risk the firing squad from there, and just hope that enough other soldiers on both sides had the same idea. Normandy I'm sure my generation would be up to the task with proper training, but Verdun and Somme, no fricking way. We wouldn't put up with that shite.