The Somme, Have We Forgotten?

Question

Today, if anyone doesnt know, is the 90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. Do you think its a shame on our countries that the First World War is often forgotten over the Second World War? Do any of you plan to commemorate today?

Answer 1

Yes it is a shame that WWI is being forgotten. I think in the future the two World Wars will be lumped together as one event with an uneasy truce in between. Sort of like the hundred years war.

I normally go to the armistice day service on the 11th of November.

I'm reading Lady Cynthia Asquith's Journal and I've looked up Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for doomed youth."

Answer 2

I think the World was so shocked by the horrors of WW1 at the time that it ws buried from many nation's national consciences'. I don't think anyone ever wanted to celebrate or remember a war that cost an entire generation and had no clear outcome after the fighting ceased.

Answer 3

You MUST be KIDDING... Americans aren't interested because it would expose the lie that more Americans died during a single day of a particular battle of the civil war than in any other conflict in history... They conveniently overlook the 20,000 Brits and Germans who died in one day during the battle of the Somme.

But, the History Channel story also had it wrong... the Russian Army lost 250,000 men in a SINGLE BATTLE early in WW2... and this was almost as many men as American lost during the ENTIRE of WW2.

Americans don't know history... their own or anyone Else's.. and ESPECIALLY if that history is Eastern European.

Answer 4

Commemorate human stupidity in butchering brother humans for political ends.

Answer 5

the mass slaughter of armies for a few acres of land....how can you forget that?