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re: Sitting outside at times like this, I think of the soldiers in WW1...
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:24 am to fr33manator
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:24 am to fr33manator
19/18
Well-done
WWI is much less tangible for all of us. My paternal grandfather was scheduled to appear but his Division got Spanish Flu-ed into submission in Oklahoma. I remember watching the local WWI vets parade on Armistice Day around 1971 or ‘72, a couple still wore their original unis. They carried a French flag in addition to the US banner.
Tough bastards, no one should have had to go through that hell for any reason.
“War is all hell.”
Well-done
WWI is much less tangible for all of us. My paternal grandfather was scheduled to appear but his Division got Spanish Flu-ed into submission in Oklahoma. I remember watching the local WWI vets parade on Armistice Day around 1971 or ‘72, a couple still wore their original unis. They carried a French flag in addition to the US banner.
Tough bastards, no one should have had to go through that hell for any reason.
“War is all hell.”
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:33 am to MLSter
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meh
Eat a bucket of AIDS dicks and die in a slow fire you piece of human sewage.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 2:01 am to fr33manator
Or the poor men that suffered -35 degree temps at The Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Can't imagine
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:00 am to fr33manator
Europe still pays the costs of WWI.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 3:04 am to fr33manator
And yet, modern snowflakes need safe spaces to shelter them from words.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 6:39 am to Walt OReilly
Or maybe we can stop fighting the wars of the old and rich? Also going to war seems to be very profitable for some, which could by the US is constantly trying to stay at war with someone.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 6:43 am to fr33manator
Bravo, Hemingway
However, I tend to prefer Faulkner or maybe Steinbeck
However, I tend to prefer Faulkner or maybe Steinbeck
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:03 am to OMLandshark
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Thank God I wasn't there. No way our generation would take it.
Just because you are a pussy doesn’t mean we couldn’t find 1% of the population who aren’t.
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 7:04 am
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:06 am to fr33manator
There was no good reason for the that shithead Wilson to throw the US into that useless conflict
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:23 am to fr33manator
WWII Battle of the Bulge - Frozen feet common 
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:26 am to fr33manator
Thank you for your service.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:31 am to fr33manator
Even though the burned the White House we still kicked England's arse in ww1
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:38 am to fr33manator
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Sitting outside at times like this, I think...
Jesus, even my balls are cold. Why am I out here when I'm paying to heat a house? I'm an idiot.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:42 am to fr33manator
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“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”
“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”
“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”
“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”
“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:45 am to OMLandshark
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I just really don't think that when people doubt that pretty much any generation in the past say 80 years would mutiny against WWI just don't know what it was.
I get what you are saying, but I don’t think you realize how silly your statement is. You are implying that there was a fundamental change in human nature/genetics 80 years ago. That’s not possible.
Sure, as things stand now, people wouldn’t fight in WWI, but human nature/genetics is still the same. All you have to do is create the right conditions and we would all act exactly the same way. There have been and will always be people who fight and people who don’t. Hell you describe certain death over the trenches and possible death in mutiny. Well you should read about the Red Army and what held them together. It was the exact opposite of what you describe. They had machine gun units behind their own lines with instructions to mow down anyone who tried to run because they had so many defectors. So certain death was behind you, the only chance you had to live was to fight forward through the enemy.
Human nature never changes. We just forget who we are in times of comfort.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:47 am to fr33manator
War is a terrible. Humans are savages.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 7:56 am to The Mick
Most pointless war ever. No good or bad guys. Just slaughter.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:28 am to Fat Harry
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Most pointless war ever. No good or bad guys. Just slaughter.
Just think of the world today had mankind been able to put the pin back in that grenade. Entire generations of European men lost. Then ~20-25 years later, another generation of European men lost. Germany will never rise to that power again it seems. Hell, after WWI, basically every monarchy in Europe was gone.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:37 am to TheHarahanian
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Jesus, even my balls are cold. Why am I out here when I'm paying to heat a house? I'm an idiot.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:45 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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Just think of the world today had mankind been able to put the pin back in that grenade.
We would probably still be on type writers. Tigerdroppings definitely wouldn’t be here
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