- Official - WWI Thread

[heydaralon]

Honestly I think we pay it less head because we've had to rescue Europe from tyranny so often it's old hat. There'd be no end to the anniversaries if we celebrated our century long protection of Europe

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

[Manwithnoname]

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

not soccer, cricket. But yes wrong place and wrong time considering the occasion.

[C-Mag]

Honestly I think we pay it less head because we've had to rescue Europe from tyranny so often it's old hat. There'd be no end to the anniversaries if we celebrated our century long protection of Europe

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

Yeah, you should be careful who you invite to the party, sometimes you get the guy that double dips the chip.

[Fife]

John L. Chapman: The Tragedy of America's Entry into World War I

This week some 80 world dignitaries including Presidents Putin, Trump, and Chancellor Merkel are gathering in France to mark the culmination of year-long remembrances of the centenary of the end of “the Great War” on November 11, 1918 – later labeled and known to every American high school history student as World War I. While at least 17 million people, including more than 116,000 Americans, died in this war — and millions more were wounded, gassed, or maimed — it’s a conflict widely misunderstood today. Indeed, because of World War II’s size and scope, cultural influence, and greater media coverage and capture, the First World War is often called “the forgotten war.”

Yet it was a cataclysmic event in its own right that both foreshadowed more intense and violent warfare in the 20th century, and fueled the growth of gargantuan central government in the United States. Most crucially, however, it was a war that should never have been fought — its causal origins and assignment of guilt for same are still a hot topic of debate a century later, a fact that alone attests to its superfluity — and one that, in any case, the United States should never have entered. These are disturbing theses about the war that will not be remembered by any of the global elites in Paris this weekend, but given the lessons for today, Americans should learn about them so as to demand of their Beltway solons wiser policy choices in the future. What follows is a short summary of America’s involvement in the war and lessons for today.

Read the whole thing.

[Montegriffo]

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

not soccer, cricket. But yes wrong place and wrong time considering the occasion.

Mia culpa.
In my defense, our one Australian poster only turns up a couple of times a year and I didn't want to miss a rare sledging opportunity.

[C-Mag]

@Fife

People really underestimate how bad a POTUS Wilson was for Liberty and America. That article does a good job of calling him out.

[SuburbanFarmer]

@Fife

People really underestimate how bad a POTUS Wilson was for Liberty and America. That article does a good job of calling him out.

Couldn’t agree more. That guy changed the entire course of modern history. And may well have caused WW2.

[heydaralon]

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

not soccer, cricket. But yes wrong place and wrong time considering the occasion.

Mia culpa.
In my defense, our one Australian poster only turns up a couple of times a year and I didn't want to miss a rare sledging opportunity.

I gave kangaroo Jack a demerit for discussing cricket as well, so don't worry you are not alone in this. I didn't know what WW1 even was until someone told me about it today. I am glad that it settled everything and that Europe was peaceful after though.

[Montegriffo]

Men of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, playing cricket in Salonika, Greece during time away from the front.



A DIY football net is used for an inter-company football match on the Balkan Front, Christmas Day 1916



A football match between officers and other ranks being played out in Salonika, Greece, Christmas Day, 1915



Men of the 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, playing rugby in France, August 1917

[Ph64]

Awesome recording here... One minute before and one minute after armistice.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eerie-re ... 1-8114109/