Remembrance Day · 2:48am Nov 12th, 2015
It is the Anniversary of the end of the Great War yet again.
To all veteran, past, present, and future, thank you.
In 1915, the war was over a year old. It will rage on for three more years, in the end killing 17 million and wounding 20 million more.
If only it truly had been the war to end all wars.
research links after the break...
These are two of the Youtube channels I have found most helpful and inspiring.
Extra History, a great place to start a study of how the war began. The only go for broad strokes, but it is a great primer on how the tragedy began.
The Great War, a channel that breaks down week by week how the war unfolded. A much better and much more detailed account.
I choose to respect the price paid by all sides by trying to understand how and why it happened. The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still don't understand.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the daytime;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
From the Ode Of Remembrance, also known as 'For the Fallen'
I had another blog in mind for today. I'm pushing that one back to December 15, an important and somber anniversary in remembrance of a very remarkable man who served in WW2.