It's crazy to think that ~99 years ago WWI would end in two days. Feels feels man.
Veterans Day is coming
Brody Jones
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Colton Allen
May they rest peacefully knowing that their families and loved ones will always remember them, Lest We Forget.
Christopher Harris
WWI Was a mistake
Jason Hughes
WWI was an inevitability.
Leo Mitchell
From what point in history can you declare "it is now inevitable"?
I think there were just as many opportunities to reduce conflict as there were to create it. The Battleship Tensions between GB and Germany in particular seems a clear example of avoiding conflict.
Rapprochement between GB and France also doesn't seem inevitable. Imagine the myriad different ways Fashoda could have turned out.
It was a tragedy though. I sincerely don't think the West has ever really recovered from it.
Joseph Powell
Battleship tensions as a potential area that if changed could have avoided conflict. Key word there that I fucked up. Sorry.
Justin Lee
I have a recurring dream that I'm in an African forest in a small camp speaking Dutch and French perfectly and can understand both in the dream but I don't even know Dutch or French in real life, then I get told to join a small force going out the back to keep from encirclement, just as we're running out we get hit by mortars and we run into the scrub brush with Wild Dogs scattering and come face to face with Germans who open fire and we open fire in return and I have a large knife and a pistol out after my rifle is out of ammunition, then a German runs up and guts me in the side with a bayonet and I wake up
I've had this exact dream a couple dozen times, the details never change
Xavier Sanders
Thank you, Maréchal
Benjamin Taylor
no it wasn't.
>*passes in 6 weeks in 1940*
oof
James Clark
Just read an article on today's newspaper about the last soldier killed in WW1.
>writes letter home, on it complains about the conditions at front and urges fried to avoid military service
>picked up by war censors
>demoted from sergeant to private
>wants to regain his rank
>charges the German positions right before 11:00 a.m., firing his rifle
>soldiers on both sides yell and wave to him to stop
>won't stop, Germans have no choice but to gun him down
Bentley Carter
>Fights out with the Germans, the Soviets and the Allies, and manages to end up as one of the victors of WW2
Yes, I'm more than proud of my homeland
Luis Powell
>China
GIVE IT BACK, THIS ISN'T RIGHT, IT WAS OURS!
Robert Lewis
Wow. Lots of stories about WWI are depressing, but man was this guy's death in vain.
Hudson Price
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Justin Nguyen
Imagine being the last guy killed. Poor bastard had no idea it would be over soon.
Jordan Powell
Cooper Carter
>The respected American author Joseph E Persico has calculated a shocking figure that the final day of WWI would produce nearly 11,000 casualties, more than those killed, wounded or missing on D-Day, when Allied forces landed en masse on the shores of occupied France almost 27 years later.
Anthony Peterson
If those men knew they were fighting for atheism, political correctness, feminism, gay abortions and mass immigration, do you think they would still have fought?
Joshua Peterson
I wonder how many were killed on Day 2. I bet people were saving up all their rage and revenge for the last day.
Carter Taylor
Actually, he was perfectly aware it was going to be over soon and went to charge the German positions alone in the hopes of regaining his rank.
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Nathan Carter
>day 2
I mean 2nd to last day.
Landon Smith
You mean 100 years.
Its the centennial.
Lucas Cooper
He isn't wrong it was 99 years 364 days ago. Tomorrow you will be right.
Jacob Gutierrez
>99.997
Ok senpai
Jose Taylor
They fought against ussr in cold war?
Charles Fisher
If Germany won WW1 our world be approximately 1.8 times better than it is now.
Asher Gray
What a fucking tragic story.
>be Sergeant
>write letter home about how the war sucks
>letter intercepted by War Department
>demoted to Private
>buddies suspect you of being the next Benedict Arnold
>desperately want to prove your loyalty
>rush a German trench alone on the last day of the war, at the last hour, in the last minute
>Germans desperately shout at you to "geh weg!" as you rush them with a bayonet
>get mowed down in a clear case of self defense
>all because you didn't want to be thought of as un-American
Luis Cooper
What would have happened if the soldiers and those in charge of those men gunned down and kept killing the german soldiers after the war is officially declared over? Would the allies just allowed them to keep killing the german soldiers or would they intervene?
>NO Jow Forums MEME SHIT FUCK YOU!!!
Oliver Morris
They would have let them continue and besides we should have continued on defeating the jap bastards more instead of letting those cunts recouped...
Evan Diaz
>be german
>don't surrender and die like a bitch
Owen Collins
Much like the rest of them.
Dominic Gray
Fake and Gay
Adam Cooper
If the war is over the soldiers have no reason to fight. A war is a game of chess for political reasons. Would pawns keep attacking other pawns if the game is over?
Evan Baker
Just answer the goddamn question and dont try to be "le too deep" bullshit.
Jack Cooper
>spend years fighting some other fucks in a bitter war where you got gassed, shelled, shot at, saw the death of chivalry with barbaric hand to hand combat, human death waves and will undeniably have some form of shellshock, ptsd or psychosis
>not having motivation to keep killing the other side for as long as you can
Jonathan King
>Run boy run starts playing
Caleb Green
The war with nips was over but you have people like that would gladly have kept killing the nips til non were left...
Camden Watson
The naval arms race was literally made up by Britain. Germany needed a navy for it's colonies and so they could ship their wares without having to pay customs to the UK. The customs the UK made through taxing Germany made up 9% of it's GDP, let that sink in. When they Brits started to pump out ships, Germany didn't even care and built the same amount as before because the naval program was to be finished in 1914. Now the UK was in heavy debt and Germany not wanting to pay the customs as mentioned also were a big problem for them. Before you say "yeah uhh but why not search for other ways to export your products?" Well they did. The berlin baghdad railway was planned to be built but needed until 1914 to be completed.
Ian Ramirez
Ayden Wright
I did answer the question you're clearly just too dumb to understand it. Stay in class, kid.
Don't take war personally. It's just business.
Carson Flores
>one of the victors
I mean, you're kinda like the little brother who tags along as the big brothers do all the work, then brag to your mum about how much you did.
Sebastian Morgan
>those MG08/15s in the background
want
Xavier James
>tfw you work with a Belgian immigrant nurse who knows how to treat mustard gas burns and can tell you the exact effects it will have on various age groups because she's treated over twenty cases in the last five years.
Chemical weapons are fucked mang.
Camden Wright
Is anyone else here taking all of their First World War guns to the range tomorrow? My Enfield and I are certainly taking a trip down there to give thanks for what it and the poor men who used it went through. Anyone else or am I alone in this sentiment?
Jaxson Sanders
>retard trying to sound philosophical and smart when really he just sounds like a dumbass.
Wyatt Lewis
BACK TO BACK WORLD WAR CHAMPS USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Easton Perry
YEAH I LOVE BEING A ZOG PUPPET WOOOO!!!!
Anthony Wright
Bentley Foster
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Lest we forget.
Tyler Price
>be American
>get shot
Hudson Ross
Isn't there a colored version?
Ryan Garcia
Creepy. I want to use that in a rpg.
Noah Turner
Basically the US after wwI, with the added bonus of fucking up the peace talks and treaties so much it allowed WWII to happen
John Phillips
You literally begged us to join because you were a hair away from revolution.
Xavier Brooks
There's something ironic about a President refusing to visit a WW1 cemetary because of the rain.
Wouldn't want to get mud on his fine Italian shoes, would we?
Oliver James
So the WW1 hell from The Darkness.
Luke Reed
Anyone have that picture of some kids homework asking them to write a twitter post from a front line ww1 soldier?
Austin Phillips
The french fucks were the ones that got to have the bigger say in the treaty talks and it was the french that got to form up on how the treaty should be dealt with which ended up being the treaty of Versailles. The usa president didn't get much of a say in it so the fault of world war two was not usa but france instead.
Julian Lee
Adrian Roberts
Too soon
Jackson Wilson
Fucking krauts always starting wars
Noah Cook
Jason Thomas
just finished reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger the other day, basically a telling of his diary, journal, and experiences he kept during the war
highly recommend
Jackson Wood
>user trying to act brave and bold when he's really just being a pussy with a keyboard
Joshua Jones
They would be court marshaled you nigger antifa faggot
Kayden White
Any events to watch on the TV or online or something?
Josiah Jackson
The united nations is a massive fucking failure
Liam Rivera
it's literally been 100 years mate
Ethan Morales
If Germany won WW1 it would win WW2 ( if actually happened in this timeline) and our world would be 5.8 times better
Elijah Kelly
>brave and bold
Spotted the SJW
Kayden Sullivan
It literally hasn't.
Too soon. Whole hours too soon.
Brayden Wood
If they were all able to look through a portal to see how the world would be in 100 years, not a single one of them would have fought. Whether Briton or Slav, conservative or liberal, aristocratic or a farmhand.
Jonathan Reed
The primary goal of almost every soldier on every front by the end of the war was to get the fuck out of the trenches and go home. The men were done with fighting well before the generals had had enough.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Adrian White
Wilfred Owen was killed a few days before the war ended to make that poem even more tragic
Justin Wood
Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour,
Adieu toutes les femmes
C'est bien fini, c'est pour toujours
De cette guerre infâme
C'est à Craonne sur le plateau
Qu'on doit laisser sa peau
Car nous sommes tous condamnés
Nous sommes les sacrifiés
- La Chanson de Craonne
Leo Long
He deserved better.
On another note, Great War Waifus! Romania is bae.
Leo Gomez
I really need to start my wwi helmet collection.
Owen Howard
I want a Stahlhelm, a Portuguese Brodie M1917 and a Pickelhaube. Also a Vietnam era M-1.
Thats all I need for my helmet collection. Wacky, practical and historically important items that represent key eras of history.
Isaiah Morris
Ive got my great grandfathers m1 from wwii and a pasgt helmet but that is it right now.
Henry Ward
Looking forward to how Indy plans on sending things off
Oliver Jones
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Ethan Smith
Henry Morris
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On ne passe pas
Thomas Nelson
>From what point in history can you declare "it is now inevitable"?
The fact that it happened
Christopher Diaz
oh for fuck's sake.
We can imagine a series of plausible choices people could have made that would have changed events.
No one says "WW1 was inevitable and it was clear that it would happen once Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. If only Julius Caesar didn't cross the Rubicon we never would have had WW1" The literal answer of 'WW1 was inevitable from the moment of the big bang because the universe is deterministic' is completely useless and besides the point.
Inevitability is a strong claim. It implies that events had progressed so far that there wasn't a plausible way of pulling back. The war happened as a series of discrete events drew it closer to the starting point. Each key event adding not only to the start of the war but also to the manner in which the war would take place.
Is the length and nature of WW1 inevitible as of Tannenburg preventing a possible early germany defeat? Or is it being held up at Liege? Or was is the Moroccan Crisis shifting the British away from Germany? The intractability of Austro-Hungarian Generals pre-war?
It's like asking 'what was the turning point in WW2'. The question taken completely literally like some kinda autist doesn't actually reveal much. It's most useful as a way of teasing out what weight we should give certain events.
Imagine a Bayesian estimate by a fully informed neutral individual judging the chance of WW1 happening in 1900 vs that same individual in 1910. What's his percentage chance estimate of war in the style of WW1 and what events caused him to change his estimate and why did he weigh them the way he did?
Henry Howard
It really is incredible now that I think about it. The greatest battle in all of mankind. Spectacular! Damn I'm high...
Hudson Martin
Each & every single man and woman who served is now dead.
Nobody from the most important conflict in the history of mankind lives.
It's kind of weird to know that something that feels like it was not that long ago was 100 years ago.
Jeremiah Morgan
so are we gonna talk about how there was that whole chinese civil war in the late 1800s that got way more casualties and was started by a dude claiming to be the brother of jesus?
Jeremiah Watson
Everything about the Italian Front was an exercise in futility
Carter Cooper
>die scared and in agony in a ditch far away from your warm bed and loving family
>generations later your descendants give it all away to the 3rd world anyway
Hunter Peterson
I actually feel sad how the italians were the worst soldiers to exist on both wars.
Brayden Perez
imagine how we (Austria/Germany) feel about being betrayed by the Italians in both wars
Ryan Foster
And yet, it still happened.
But nice thesis, turbo autist
Owen Ward
Reminder that France wanted to break apart Germany so that they would never threaten the Continent again. Petain wasn't referring to the Treaty of Versailles as too harsh when he said it was "an armistice that will last 20 years", he thought it wasn't harsh enough.
Aaron Adams
It's a good enough reason as any. Sadly, because of the daily world-wide media campaign against Trump if he were to show at these events it would just result in legions of Marxist protestors following him around. At least this way they'll stay home and shitpost about America online rather than shitting up a somber event.