We Remember

100 years ago today - at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of November, 1918 - the Great War/World War I came to an end. In 1568 days of fighting 20 million people lost their lives, merely to set the stage for a bloodier, longer sequel. To all who served in that brutal conflict, RIP. #WeRemember

That's a Horrendous Estimate

Today, online, I watched an artillery shell being detonated, It had been found buried in a field in France 100 years after it was fired

Some estimates say it will be 700 years before all of Europe is cleared of WWI era ordinance. That's crazy.

100 Years Ago: the US Enters WWI

 100 years ago today the US officially entered WWI, 100 thousand Americans would die in France over the next nineteen months. 

All in all, I don't think we had any business getting involved. It was a fight between monarchies. It should have stayed that way. 

Verdun - A Century On

Today is the 100th anniversary of start of the Battle of Verdun. Over the next ten months some 800,000 men would become casualties.

A Century Ago Today

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain entering WWI, and for all intents and purposes the death of their Empire. I do not think the latter is automatically anything to celebrate (nor the war itself, obviously) but RIP to all of her soldiers who perished in the conflict.