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- aelias, on 10/11/2007, -6/+89Over 2,000 people a day dying.
That's a ***** war. Sitting in a freezing trench all night, no food, no water, enough ammo for one or two rushes before you're overrun and stabbed to death in the dark. Iraq is club med by comparison. Digg me down for being an unpatriotic *****. - g30ff, on 10/11/2007, -5/+67Hmm... Those colour photos make WW1 look just as bleak and ***** as the black and white photos do. War sucks.
- jackhole, on 10/11/2007, -1/+62"I died in hell -
(They called it Passchendaele). My wound was slight,
And I was hobbling back; and then a shell
Burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell
Into the bottomless mud, and lost the light."
- from Sassoon's "Memorial Tablet" - FulcrumVitesse, on 10/11/2007, -3/+49The pictures are so sharp and clear, they look much more recent than their actual age of 90 years. The colors are added by hand, of course.
- JohnKappa, on 10/25/2008, -3/+47If a picture tell a thousand words, there's one thousand words I never want to know...
- fletchsd, on 10/11/2007, -2/+42Amazing photographs. Maybe looking at these photographs and others people will understand why Europeans are so against war. All of my older relatives in England lived through WWII. Their fathers fought in WWI. I have heard horrific stories about both wars from them. The ones about WWI were recently told to me by my Nana whose father fought along the Western Front in WWI. Each morning the soldiers had to run lit matches along the seams of their uniforms to kill the lice. Many of my relatives still cannot talk about the Second World War.
- nairanvac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23I agree wholeheartedly. Not to belittle the deaths of people in Iraq, but, really, that isn't anything compared to all the people that died in WWI and WWII.
- whatthefu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23World War 1 is so depressing :(
- dn11, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25they aren't color photos - they are colorized photos
- victorycig, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18It always has, and always will.
- Fungo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20
Cruelty has a human heart
everyman does play his part
terror of the men we kill
the human heart is hungry still
I stand my ground for the very last time
gun is ready as I stand in line
nervous wait for the whistle to blow
rush of blood and over we go...
Iron Maiden - "Passchendaele" - domeyerj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15It's a completely different battle when you can actually tell who your enemy is.
- ICSU, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14as opposed to all the cheerful wars?
- RussellDovey, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15until Apple makes it new and hip with iWar.
- Gadren, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I live in Kansas City, and we have the National World War I Memorial here -- it's a must-see for everyone... such a sad and pointless war.
- directive0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Dugg for my ancestors who had to LIVE through that, and those that didn't.
- ribo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- RussellDovey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Of course it matters how many died. Sure, it would be different if someone in my family got blown up by an IED, but not nearly as different as if I, my neighbours, my street, my suburb and my entire city got firebombed to destroy the railyards in the center of town.
- PolishNInja, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8That doesn't even look like planet earth.
- ICSU, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8If you do, read 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
One of the best (war) books ever. - FakeOutdoorsman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Reminds me of the song "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" from the Pogues:
So they collected the crippled, the wounded and maimed,
and they shipped us back home to Australia.
The legless, the armless, the blind, and insane.
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be.
And thank christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve and to mourn and to pity. - answer42, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11It doesnt matter how many died. Each individual life is precious to that person's friends and family. If one of your brothers or sons died in Iraq you would be thinking much differently than you are now.
- DigTheDoug, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10"In a foreign field he lay
lonely soldier unknown grave
on his dying words he prays
tell the world of Paschendale"
- from Iron Maiden's "Paschendale" - browwiw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Dulce bellum inexpertis
- Myonosken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yeah Russell you need to learn a bit more History if you think we fought them because of the assassination. The assassination was the trigger, not the motive.
- pagit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Paschendale
31 July 1917 – 10 November 1917
British Empire: 448,000 killed and wounded
German Empire : 260,000 killed and wounded - ribo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yea, meant that in a Wilfred Owen way, not a Horace way.
- jimmoses, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Never let it be said that religion is the only poisonous dogma. This revolting spectacle is the result of nationalism. Next time you feel a patriotic emotion remember: these men were proud of their nations. Sincerely. Deeply. Next time you hear an anthem or recite a pledge think, "who wants me to feel this pride, and why?".
- n00854180t, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7My grandfather was in WWII. He never spoke of it, except to talk about basic training (how he was a total screw up, and didn't recover (he never even got passed PVT) until he was deployed, where he ended up driving Jeep as a corporal). Now he's lost the remaining bit of his memories to Alzheimer's, probably for the best.
Former solder myself. Not a vet though. - powrslaveeli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Up The Irons!!!
- tdp301, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I fail to see the Roosevelt connection. Wilson was president during the war.
- radu79, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7And speaking of it, a link to the song, for those who never heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl3R9mcp4D4
- d722002, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Oh dude that is such an awesome song. Maiden rules!
- shirosamurai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Hey skyshock1... wrong world war!
- SpikeZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Reminds me of when I visited Washington D.C. I was amazed at how little traffic the WWI memorial gets there. (it is more of a local memorial not a national one)
You can read a little about it here: http://www.dcpreservation.org/endangered/2003/warmemorial.html
I didn't know Kansas City had the National WWI memorial, and I will certainly visit it if I go there in the future. - TexMurphy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7WWI Shellshock video, I hope the earth learns to live without war someday. This video goes with the photos.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRv56gsqkzs - SlapAyoda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Great photographs, I just wish they provided them in higher resolution. I hate war as much as is humanly possible, and I think the brave work done by wartime photographers is one of the best tools we have to show the public just how awful and needless war most often is. In particular, some of the photographs I've seen from the Vietnam war are startling and profound.
- aprice2704, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5From "Break of Day"
There seemed a smell of autumn in the air
At the bleak end of night; he shivered there
In a dank, musty dug-out where he lay,
Legs wrapped in sand-bags,—lumps of chalk and clay
Spattering his face. Dry-mouthed, he thought, ‘To-day
We start the damned attack; and, Lord knows why,
Zero’s at nine; how bloody if I’m done in
Under the freedom of that morning sky!’
And then he coughed and dozed, cursing the din.
Was it the ghost of autumn in that smell
Of underground, or God’s blank heart grown kind,
That sent a happy dream to him in hell?—
Where men are crushed like clods, and crawl to find
Some crater for their wretchedness; who lie
In outcast immolation, doomed to die
Far from clean things or any hope of cheer,
Cowed anger in their eyes, till darkness brims
And roars into their heads, and they can hear
Old childish talk, and tags of foolish hymns. - HUKI365, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Anybody got the first one in wallpaper size?
- Akaji, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Drama on Digg! /grabs popcorn
- mutz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm from Roeselare about 40 km. from passendale and the farmers are still digging up unexploded mortar shells and obusses that are sometimes filled with yperiet posion gas (mustard gas) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yperiet )
Some of the big holes are excellent fishing grounds... - ConeOfSilence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4http://www.greatwar.nl/
has an interesting gallery of photo's that escaped military censoring. Quit gruesome. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Reminds me of that cartoon i used to watch when I was a kid (90's) where the two last guys on earth were on each side of the battlefield and they shot each other just because they were in a war. What was the name of that?
- RussellDovey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5No, all memories of the wars must be preserved. We've got to keep reminding ourselves why war is *****, and how it pointlessly screwed up lives like that of your grandfather.
Otherwise it'll be "Rah, rah, gotta teach the Muslims a lesson!"
Wait... - Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It probably would have erupted anyway due to the political tensions though, at least the way things were heading at the time. While it acted as a trigger, it wasn't really what the war ended being all about.
- poseitom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3War doesn't need color to be horrific !
http://www.greatwar.nl/picnic/pic01.html - sgtbutterscotch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3When I had to read that in high school everyone was saying how their confusion over all the characters' names made it hard to follow, but I thought it was really easy to follow and that made me mad because I felt it was under-appreciated. /rant
- Veeoh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3shocking, just shocking. I salute all who fought, and all those who fought and died.
- dn11, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5"in my day we walked 30 miles up hill in the snow both ways to get to the bunker and got shot 50 times in the ass and mustard gassed 3 times"
- toppgun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think I know what you are talking about. For some reason I feel like it could have been looney tunes.... one of their more morbid cartoons
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