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re: Today is the 100 year anniversary of the 3rd Ypres. They called it Passchendale
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:18 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:18 pm to fr33manator
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Well if it follows the historical pattern then we are living in the times of weak men, and hard times are ahead
Indeed they are. And I don't think they're that far away.
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Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:20 pm to fr33manator
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Well if it follows the historical pattern then we are living in the times of weak men
Did you just assume their gender?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:21 pm to Darth_Vader
One day I'd like to do a battlefield tour of Europe.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:24 pm to Lou Pai
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Did you just assume their gender?
No. I correctly stated that men are the ones that go off to die in vast numbers to fight the wars of the elite.
2 genders. 2 world wars. 2 legit to quit.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:25 pm to fr33manator
quote:The way he describes those conditions made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
If any of you haven't listened to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Blueprint For Armageddon you need to.
fricking hell that was.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:33 pm to ReauxlTide222
Ypres and Verdun are two places I want to visit one day. Just to walk the earth where hell opened its mouth. Gives me goosebumps just reading about it again.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 5:32 am to beerJeep
I really want to visit Gallipoli.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 6:08 am to fr33manator
The two Wars bled Europe dry and robbed the world of so much.
Europe is still a shell of its former self.
Europe is still a shell of its former self.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 6:55 am to fr33manator
I don't think women and minorities are depicted enough in those photos. Maybe someone can clean that up with photoshop and add a fair representation so the kids looking at these won't be offended. TIA
Fricking hell on Earth was found at Passchendale
Fricking hell on Earth was found at Passchendale
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:14 am to fr33manator
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Prussian martial spirit and Bavarian ingenuity.
The Prussians refined what the French started with comprehensive staff work by section and war fighter function. The red stripe (signified you were a grad of the Prussian Staff College) was still a huge deal during WWll.
If you have time read about the German defense in depth, developed after their offensive capability was reduced. Absolutely brilliant.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:45 am to tigerpimpbot
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I don't think women and minorities are depicted enough in those photos. Maybe someone can clean that up with photoshop and add a fair representation so the kids looking at these won't be offended. TIA
That is one thing that irks the Hell out of me about Battlefield 1. The sniper class is black. On the German side. Makes zero sense. Germany had no truly discernable amount of African troops.
Yet 25% of their troops are depicted as such.
Modern historical revisionism
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:06 am to DavidTheGnome
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PBS had an awesome series in WW1 called The Great War
Did you know there was a WWI Memorial on the National Mall? Here it is...
Article about it
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Situated off the national mall amid overgrown trees and surrounded by puddles and cracked pavement, the 79-year-old monument is water stained and time weathered.
In the space of half an hour during a recent summer afternoon, fewer than 10 people visited the site, dedicated by President Hoover in 1931 to the 26,000 Washingtonians who fought and the 499 who died in the Great War.
According to the Congressional Research Service, more than 4.7 million Americans served in World War I and more than 116,000 died in the conflict, which ended in 1918.
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