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2006-06-16 14:12:19 · 5 answers · asked by HaZZa 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I think so. In Ypres Belgium there is a monument set up for the lost soldiers in the British army in WW1. Busses come there every day rain or shine, winter and summer. They are Brits most them do not know anything from WW1 and yet they bring poppy wreaths and at 8 pm they play taps. They have done that all these years except , of course, during ww2. I was there by accident one day and could not believe my eyes , it was very moving. I am a product of WW2 living in Belgium at the time and the men who liberated us are still in my memories, I am grateful I saw them and met them when I was 13.!
2006-06-16 14:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World War I was an abomination. Trench warfare in a Sea of Mud. The Generals and their Staffs, deep behind the Lines, making the stupidest of Plans with NO regard for Human Life. It was absolute Hell on Earth.
It was Folly from start to finish.
2006-06-16 21:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by fatsausage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they sent thousands upon thousands of soldiers running across 500 yards or less with the knowledge of the huge attrition rate to take a few hundred yards of ground. In WWII the deaths actually accomplished something.
2006-06-16 23:28:41 · answer #3 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at the time. Generals on all sides were incompetant and simply threw hundreds of thousands of men per day into suicidal frontal attacks.
Millions died to capture no more than a few miles of mud.
2006-06-19 16:27:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all lives are valued
2006-06-16 21:15:50 · answer #5 · answered by Rebecca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋