Next month marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice and I invite everyone to take a few moments over the coming weeks to consider all the names and faces of those lost in the Great War.
Often overlooked in media, the First World War marked the death of colonialism and the beginning of an age of destruction unequaled throughout human history. An entire generation sent their best and brightest men off to war. Rather than building a brighter future for their homelands, they were slaughtered in the most horrible ways modern science could devise. The absence of these brave people and the damage done to those who survived can be felt around world even today.
A hundred years later, I challenge all of you to honor those who died by learning about their war and to learn from it.
Don’t remember what happened to him I was told by my dad he survived but a lot of other people say his regiment was obliterated with no survivors I never met him so I don’t know truly what happened to him
My great grandfather went off to fight in WW1 Infantry got there 1 year before it ended
@jamesPLANESii The power vacuum left by the collapse of the aristocracy, the rise of extremist ideology and the failure of global markets had a stronger impact than the treaty. But yes, the treaty was awful.
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After learning that in history class last year, everyone in my class came to the same conclusion. WW2 could have been avoided if it weren't for the Treaty of Versailles dumping all the blame on Germany.
Lol the treaty of Versailles caused WWII lol.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
@smaug If people forget how horrible those wars were, things like that will surely happen again.
peple at my school think i am wierd for studying and learning about the world wars but of people forgot about them we would have huge problems in the future PS my grandfather served in ww2
They were heroes, all of them. Central and Allied, they all served their countries bravely