re: Pictures from days gone by....

First pic shows the Cameron Highlanders assembled in front of Edinburgh Castle in 1914 before they shipped out to France.

The second pic shows how many of them were left when the regiment returned home in 1918.



(I've seen these pics on here before, but it still blows me the hell away every time.)

pics make a much bigger impact than numbers.

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7th Cavalry, C Troop after Wounded Knee

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Each and every single one of those 'men' and their fellow soldiers are worthless, shameful, sorry, cowardly shitstains. I hope they suffered for what they did. And then died a horrible death.

I see that just like previous threads like this one, people are still posting pictures with no explanations or captions. I hate that shite.

The double standard is yours.

I am speaking only about the 'men' in that specific photograph. Those dishonorable cowards murdered almost 300 women, children, eldlerly men they were 'attempting to disarm'.

At first I thought your post foolish and unrelated. But it's actually good you brought the larger context up. Because at the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre, the US had laid claim to and taken possession of the Lakota people and their lands. So this wasn't war being waged as you ignorantly assert. It was a cold-blooded slaughter.

"...helpless children and women with babies in their arms had been chased as far as two miles from the original scene of encounter and cut down without mercy by the troopers."
Hugh McGinnis; First Battalion, Co. K, 7th Cavalry

Look, I'm an American and I am proud of America and I defend America all of the time. I am a veteran of many reddit conflicts fighting the combined forces of stupid arse liberals and dumbass Russians always going on and on about Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But the 7th Cav deserves to be remembered in infamy for their crimes. There's no other way to properly record them or their actions in history.

Yes, war is a part of human conflict. But it's dishonest at best to say our actions in events surrounding the breaking of the Fort Laramie Treaty, Wounded Knee and Sand Creek were excusable or just part of the times.

John Quincy Adams

first selfie