Today Is The 90th Anniversary Of The End Of WWI

6:00 am EST November 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Link: “Leaders from the powers that fought the war, now allies, were to gather at a ceremony on the site of the 1916 Battle of Verdun, where 300,000 men were slaughtered over eleven months of bloody trench warfare.”

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12 Responses to “Today Is The 90th Anniversary Of The End Of WWI”

  1. Brian Carver says:
    November 11, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Yes, a horrible waste. I think in the last year the last veterans of the war form France, Germany and Australia all passed away. Rest in peace and let’s make sure nothing like this happens again.

  2. Colorado Dave says:
    November 11, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Today is the closest thing to an international Holiday. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns went silent. I still think of it as Armistice Day.

    The Twentieth Century was one bloody century. Let’s hope leaders like Obama can craft a different fate for the 21st.

  3. Parthenon says:
    November 11, 2008 at 10:32 am

    The Twentieth Century was one bloody century. Let’s hope leaders like Obama can craft a different fate for the 21st.

    Hear, hear.

  4. Sean D. Martin says:
    November 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Considering how this century has gone so far, at least for the US, there is certainly far more room to move in the “gets better” direction than in the other.

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    November 11, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    The Twentieth Century was one bloody century. Let’s hope leaders like…

    OK, you lost me right there. You want leaders to keep us out of war? I think I see your problem.

  6. Mike says:
    November 11, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    OK, you lost me right there. You want leaders to keep us out of war? I think I see your problem.

    Read history, and come back when you’ve learned better.

  7. Colorado Dave says:
    November 12, 2008 at 12:31 am

    Quaker in a Basement
    OK, you lost me right there. You want leaders to keep us out of war? I think I see your problem.

    What a tool….

  8. Quaker in a Basement says:
    November 12, 2008 at 1:11 am

    Leaders won’t keep you out of wars, boys. You gotta do that for yourself. The “Quaker” bit ain’t just a handle. We got 350 years of history going for us. George Fox stayed in prison instead of going to war:

    I told them I knew whence all wars arose, even from the lusts, according to James’ doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.

    If your own conscience won’t keep you out of war, your leaders surely won’t.

  9. merl says:
    November 12, 2008 at 4:35 am

    I’ve been to Verdun, a very sad place.

  10. Robert says:
    November 12, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Given what happened between 1914 and 1945, the idea that France and Germany (and the UK) would ever see themselves as being on the same team in any meaningful geopolitical sense must have seemed (immediately after the end either World War) like the most implausible optimism.

    Makes me wonder what changes the next half-century are going to bring. . . .

  11. bryan says:
    November 13, 2008 at 10:35 am

    We have 3 WW1 vets left, one from each service. The RAF guy is 112 years old.
    quaker has a point, but many Conciencious objectors served as stretcher bearers on the front. Unarmed. Now you have to admire this bravery as well IMO.

  12. SallyMutant says:
    November 15, 2008 at 3:43 am

    Lyrics to a Great Depression movie number, (Goldiggers of 1934, I think) sung by Etta Moten. She’s singing about WWI vets, the Bonus Marchers, farm crises; all in one great Warner Brothers’ musical number.

    My Forgotten Man

    I don’t know if he deserves a bit of sympathy
    Forget your sympathy, that’s all right with me
    I was satisfied to drift along from day to day
    Till they came and took my man away
    Remember my forgotten man.
    You put a rifle in his hand. You sent him far away’
    You shouted: “Hip-hooray!” But look at him today.
    Remember my forgotten man. You had him cultivate the land.
    He walked behind the plow, The sweat fell from his brow. But look at him right now
    And once, he used to love me I was happy then
    He used to take care of me
    Won’t you bring him back again?
    ‘Cause ever since the world began
    A woman’s got to have a man
    Forgetting him, you see
    Means you’re forgetting me
    Like my forgotten man

    This is so much better with video(if possible). Sorry to be so skinflint dialup that I can’t help folks with links. Our version of the video is Beta! 8)