Database launched to remember every man lost in WW1, which started 100 years ago today. - Polidicks

[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76564000/jpg/_76564482_016208382-1.jpg[/img] [quote][B]The Royal British Legion has started an online campaign to gather tributes to every Commonwealth serviceman and woman who died in World War One. [/B]A total of 1,117,077 service personnel from what was then the British Empire died in the war, which began in 1914. The [URL="http://www.everymanremembered.org/"]Every Man Remembered[/URL] database allows people to commemorate relatives or someone they knew, or find a person for whom no-one has yet left a tribute. The legion called it the "greatest act of remembrance" to mark the centenary. The people being remembered came from the UK and numerous parts of the British Empire - from which the Commonwealth emerged - including Africa, Australia, India and the West Indies. The Every Man Remembered campaign was inspired by a British Explorer Scout who wrote to the legion after visiting a war cemetery in Belgium. The Scout asked why some of the graves had dozens of poppies and crosses next to them, while others had none.[/quote] Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia today a hundred years ago, marking the start of this most pointless and tragic conflict. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28519247[/url]

Really interesting. Just used it to find one of my relatives that I know died in ww1.

Found someone from my family.

[QUOTE=Emperorconor;45523861] Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia today a hundred years ago, marking the start of this most pointless and tragic conflict. [/quote] I wouldn't say entirely pointless. World War I was a considerable contribution to the new attitude established in the latter half of the last century that has brought the peace, respect and lack of wars in western Europe we have today. It just wasn't enough at the time to stop WW2 from taking place. I'm pretty sure there was definitely far more reluctance to the prospect of war, particularly in Britain by WW2 because of the memory of WW1.

Man, just think about it. Over a million people dead. And we consider 300 deaths a massive tragedy.

[QUOTE=Str4fe;45524367]Man, just think about it. Over a million people dead. And we consider 300 deaths a massive tragedy.[/QUOTE] 300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524493]300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.[/QUOTE] how edgy

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524493]300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.[/QUOTE] Thanks Ghandi

WW1 casualties today: 1 [editline]28th July 2014[/editline] [I]it begins[/I]

[video=youtube;-ZujhoHZBsg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZujhoHZBsg[/video]

[QUOTE=dai;45524754]how edgy[/QUOTE] Oh please. You're just upset I posted this in this kind of topic, but I would have said the exact same thing anytime else. You and the others that use that word constantly are idiotic. [QUOTE=Chickens!;45524813]Thanks Ghandi[/QUOTE] This though, this is funny.

Kind of annoying that you have to register to 'place a poppy' for somebody.

[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;45524876][video=youtube;-ZujhoHZBsg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZujhoHZBsg[/video][/QUOTE] I really like the Rech flag. I mean, I also really dig the modern German flag, those colors go really nicely with each other, but that Black White Red has a certain authority and might to it. [editline]28th July 2014[/editline] It would look so horrible without the black though.

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45525182]Thanks for quoting Stalin This thread wouldnt be the same without you[/QUOTE] No problem. Really though, it doesn't exactly matter Stalin said that -- he was spot on. Nobody can grieve for a million losses.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45525270]No problem. Really though, it doesn't exactly matter Stalin said that -- he was spot on. Nobody can grieve for a million losses.[/QUOTE] then the 1920's wasn't a time of massive grieving? the 30's weren't a direct result of everybody scared of another war?

stalin didn't make that quote

[QUOTE=Sableye;45525360]then the 1920's wasn't a time of massive grieving? the 30's weren't a direct result of everybody scared of another war?[/QUOTE] No, I don't hardly think so. The 1920's was called "The Roaring Twenties" for a reason, yknow. Unless you mean when the stock market crashed in 1929, in which case you're still wrong because that's grieving for each others families, not for a million deaths. Like I said before, nobody can grieve for a million losses. It's just not possible.

None of my family served in WWI, I guess I'm going to have to wait until 2039 before finding my grandpa on there.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524493]300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.[/QUOTE] Hmm okay let's assume that WWIII started, and China nuked Tokyo. That is over a 30 million people dead, is it still a statistic to you or is it a tragedy? The reason we see WWI and 2 so much as a statistic is because it didn't happen in our time, we have no connection to the people who were lost. If you lived in the time of WWI, you would hear each death as a tragedy (I hope so at least). You might become less attuned to the thought of death but it should still bother you. Finally when the war ended and you saw how many people died you could see how big a tragedy the event actually was.

Have some images. [t]http://i.imgur.com/8s7LBCn.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/b1DiCvi.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/5Er8X4j.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/Qslqw3l.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45525554]Like I said before, nobody can grieve for a million losses. It's just not possible.[/QUOTE] The families grieved for them. The commanders grieved. And certainly their field comrades grieved too. If it's possible for somebody to grieve for 300 lives lost, as you said earlier they could, then it's just as possible for somebody to grieve for a million lives lost. You're not actually trying to prove anything here; all of us can tell you're just trying to act like a high-minded hardass. Fuck off.

[QUOTE=supersoldier58;45525712]Hmm okay let's assume that WWIII started, and China nuked Tokyo. That is over a 30 million people dead, is it still a statistic to you or is it a tragedy? [/QUOTE] That would be a statistic.

is there one of these for world war 2? my great grandfather died in ww2.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45526407]That would be a statistic.[/QUOTE] You're really riding off on this quote aren't you. That quote isn't supposed to be some kind of edgy life advice shit. It's supposed to point out how society as a whole seems to see these things by default.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45526407]That would be a statistic.[/QUOTE] yes, but would it not also be a great loss of human life and a tragedy as well for all involved?

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524493]300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.[/QUOTE] Captain Price - Modern Warfare 1

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45526691]The "Roaring Twenties" is a cultural term, and mostly for the west. Most Russians, or more spesificly most people under USSR were grieving during twenties. China had civil wars, lawlessness, all a source of grief. You are trying hard now, you give an image as if you dont care about people dying at all.[/QUOTE] Not even the whole west, mostly just the Anglosphere.

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524493]300 deaths is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.[/QUOTE] Stalin's intended meaning on the lackluster, less caring and less sympathetic perceptive reactions people give to larger numbers of deaths compared to a bare handful of deaths is actually to some extent true But I wouldn't use this quote without explaining it like that

[QUOTE=Shinycow;45524905]Oh please. You're just upset I posted this in this kind of topic, but I would have said the exact same thing anytime else. You and the others that use that word constantly are idiotic.[/QUOTE] actually I wanted to quip you about it because you're the guy who posted in the obama impeachment thread about how [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1412730&p=45521202&viewfull=1#post45521202]Benghazi[/url] was basically the single worst diplomatic tragedy under any president because of the loss of [url]one ambassador[/url] (therefore your stance for impeachment), in the face of people calling you out about how there were more than twice as many representative locales attacked like this in the previous president's term without any action nor uproar about them, and far, FAR more tragic assaults further back in time where the residing president didn't even bat an eye repeating the quote you did is meaningless and tends to be a rallying cry of armchair warriors on facebook trying to look like they've lived out a long and trying life, but in this context it shows a plenty about how much [b]you[/b] rather focus on a single event than understand anything about what the issue even is that continues to cause these events nor how they are prevented. This attitude turns the loss of these people into a meaningless effigy to burn. You disgrace the people you're pretending to avenge and it's this very attitude that turns tragedy to statistic.

RIP Ross Briscoe, died in a training exercise trying to defend your country and will be forever remembered by the rest of our family.