Brits urged to turn out the lights for WW1 centenary, World leaders at WW1 centenary events in UK an - Polidicks

[QUOTE=ejonkou;45589343]History is written by the victors.[/QUOTE] groaned so hard i shit myself

[QUOTE=smurfy;45593241][t]http://imgkk.com/i/wto1.jpg[/t] Parliament, the London Eye, and Tower Bridge are all dark [t]http://imgkk.com/i/3j09.jpg[/t] Downing Street is lit only by a single candle [t]http://imgkk.com/i/jqj5.png[/t] A tower of light shines into the sky from Westminster[/QUOTE] God bless you fine bastards [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNfvJc99YY[/media]

All of the commemorative days in Australia are focused on World War 1, with extension to all past, and present servicemen, and servicewomen, both alive, and deceased. [video=youtube;B1Blw_hbp1o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Blw_hbp1o[/video] Lest we forget.

I remember my Great Uncle actually sneaked out of Germany to fight for the British. He ended up getting Mustard Gassed, but he still made it through even with a missing lung. What a badass Uncle Stanley was

[QUOTE=darkedone02;45588781]Not to be an asshole, but have we already moved on from WW1? All of the WW1 Vets have passed on and I think it's time to end any event about ww1 to end permanently. WW1 will forever be in our history books and I think it's time we put WW1 in the back of our minds. I would say the same thing with WW2 but I don't think that will happen until 2040 or later.[/QUOTE] saying "Not to be an asshole" doesn't not make you an asshole when you post shit like this. Millions of people died in World War I, and tens of millions of families were affected. There are still children alive today who never saw their father again after WWI. There are children alive today who will never have known their grandfather because of WWI. The battlefields were literally soaked in blood in the no-man's land between the Allied and Central trenches. Lines of men charged through a hail of gunfire and artillery shells, scores of men slowly and painfully died to horrible things like chlorine or mustard gas. And we should just forget about it? Move on? Not honor those who have fallen? People who die to preserve the ideals of their homeland should [i]always[/i] be honored and remembered. They gave their lives for something much greater than you, or me, or anything. And here you sit, 100 years later, saying we should just "forget them" Grow up.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;45589312][img]http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/wwi-trenches-today.jpg[/img] This image speaks volumes.[/QUOTE] Yup, farmers can't even plough their fields without fear of digging up some unexploded shells and other debris. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PBvqbte.jpg[/IMG] Or how about whole villages being wiped off the map with nothing left but huge craters? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1Lf0sjS.jpg[/IMG] Europe couldn't forget about WW1 even if they fuckin wanted to. To say that we should forget it is hugely insensitive and makes ya look like a right cunt darkedone02 and as a Canadian I find it hugely disrespectful to the sacrifice our troops made. So with that said, you can go trod on a mine.

I wonder if German Goverment has done anything to remember the fallen

[QUOTE=Careld;45597122]I wonder if German Goverment has done anything to remember the fallen[/QUOTE] They have Volkstrauertag which takes place in November. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day#Germany[/url] [editline]5th August 2014[/editline] Unfortunately many of Germany's war memorials on foreign soil were destroyed after WW2. Now I don't know much but from by brief research it looks like they mostly got to place just cemeteries. They have have a few very small memorials scattered around but nothing on the scale of say, Vimy Ridge. [url]http://www.greatwar.co.uk/memorials/ww1-western-front-battlefield-memorials.htm#german[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannenberg_Memorial[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_I_memorials_in_Germany[/url]

A funny little story about WWI. Me great-great-great grandad, Jimmy McCloud, served in the Gordon Highlanders during the war. Now he didn't smoke, so whenever the soldiers would get cigarettes, he would trade them off for two things, whiskey and socks. During the war, he would wear two or three pairs of socks at a time to prevent trench foot. Now he had a few nicknames at the end of the war, "Shotgun","Boomer","Farmer Jim", and "Maniac McCloud". Now the story behind this is that when the Americans came around, ol' Jimmy saw them carrying a Winchester M1897 Shotgun, and being the intuitive man he was, decided that being able to fire more bullets from a louder gun was better then his crummy M1917 Lee Enfield rifle. One day, Jimmy managed to bribe one of the doughboys into letting him buy his shotgun, by trading his rifle, three packs of cigarettes (one of which may have been empty) and a quarter of a bottle of whiskey. From then on, whenever he charged out of the trench, he would woop, scream, and laugh like a maniac, blowing the Hell out of every damn Hun he saw.

[QUOTE=darkedone02;45588781]Not to be an asshole, but have we already moved on from WW1? All of the WW1 Vets have passed on and I think it's time to end any event about ww1 to end permanently. WW1 will forever be in our history books and I think it's time we put WW1 in the back of our minds. I would say the same thing with WW2 but I don't think that will happen until 2040 or later.[/QUOTE] You know, it's fairly obvious you are an american even without flagdog. World war 1 for Europe is something much greater and much more meaningful than the american independance war or the US civil war. It's even more recent. Why don't you not celebrate the fourth of july for instance. I mean all the vets are long gone, the majority of the fortifications or battle damage has long eroded away. Why don't we just keep it in the history books. [QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;45589312][img]http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/wwi-trenches-today.jpg[/img] This image speaks volumes.[/QUOTE] I prefer this myself. [t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KtdsLoK9MM4/UZOaYs-hOeI/AAAAAAAAADA/zqjgR5CD50s/s1600/wwi-map.gif[/t]

I'm all in favor of memorials like this, but fuck these cunts: [quote]I hope everyone has a candle lit right now, if not you need to reevaluate your life.[/quote] Who use it as a platform to show off what a good person they are.

[QUOTE=darkedone02;45588781]Not to be an asshole, but have we already moved on from WW1? All of the WW1 Vets have passed on and I think it's time to end any event about ww1 to end permanently. WW1 will forever be in our history books and I think it's time we put WW1 in the back of our minds. I would say the same thing with WW2 but I don't think that will happen until 2040 or later.[/QUOTE] Go sit in the corner until you realize how absolutely daft what you just said is.

Still waiting for the British to confess that Gallipoli was a major fuck up and the Australians and New Zealanders who were sent to be killed should of never happened We didn't have any fucking threat in that god damn war it was only the British pleading for the commonwealth to get involved. If Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa didn't bother we wouldn't of lost a fuckton of innocent young men [editline]5th August 2014[/editline] Actually India was literally ruled by British parliament so they would of got involved, but the rest? All self governing with the crown over us.

[QUOTE=The mouse;45590457]Whose freedom did they die for? Certainly not ours, Imperial Germany was no threat to us. Did they die for the freedom of the Palestinians, the Arabs or the Turks who we tried to subdue during and after the war? Did they die for the freedom of Belgium? A country who had no problems with enslaving and massacring the entirety of the Congo. Did they die for the freedom of the Slavs who started the war to begin with? No our Soldiers didn't die for freedom, they died for the foreign policy interests of the Asquith government. I don't mean to sound disrespectful, because it is important that we pay respects to the dead, just for the right reasons and not the wrong ones and using "fighting for freedom" certainly is a wrong one for the First World War. No, Serbia didn't want war but they didn't do anything to stop it. The Serbian Government of 1914 was almost exclusively run by hardline, Anti-Austrian Extremists who did whatever they could to undermine the Austrian Government.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Overthrow"] They murdered one of their Kings in the early 20th century because they felt that he wasn't Anti-Austrian enough.[/URL] The Serbian Blackhand funded Gavrillo Princip and his gang and had direct links to the murder of Franz Ferdinand as well as other terrorist groups which wanted to get rid of Austria-Hungary. What were the Austrians supposed to do? Let all the Serbian aggression just slide? The worst part is that pre-1914 Austria-Hungary had no intention of annexing Serbia, the Serbians just wanted to get rid of Austria-Hungary. In fact Franz Ferdinand wanted to liberalise the empire and give freedom to all the Empire's minorities under a federation led by Austria. Not only this but he even said something along of the lines of "what would we get from annexing Serbia but a few plum trees and a bunch of rebellious Serbs" The Serbian people suffered during the war as a result of their own government's hatred of Austria.[/QUOTE] 'fighting for freedom' just sounds better, and you can't argue that if we didn't fight in WW1 at all Germany wouldn't have invaded.

Reposting: [t]http://i.imgur.com/GpH7s2v.jpg[/t] [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] WWI imagery is haunting.

[QUOTE=Cabbage;45598434]'fighting for freedom' just sounds better, [B]and you can't argue that if we didn't fight in WW1 at all Germany wouldn't have invaded.[/B][/QUOTE] Sorry, I don't know what this means, wouldn't have invaded who, Britain?

[QUOTE=Drsalvador;45598505]Reposting: [t]http://i.imgur.com/GpH7s2v.jpg[/t] [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] WWI imagery is haunting.[/QUOTE] Even more so when colorized. [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10464387_487572914719899_9145292154805432032_n.png?oh=75f54dbd6dc3f8220a457f6535fdc2ff&oe=543B889B&__gda__=1414122225_db49f8dc2139477f646f7a876721d998[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10405564_468111943332663_441629009956914890_n.jpg?oh=1c9b1a72d9c75dd1ebeb4437b80c859a&oe=544B1E40&__gda__=1414108029_0127204f519a999f5b23907b0ed2d8cd[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t1.0-9/10377157_464657543678103_47064344082515038_n.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s552x414/10348179_455176761292848_3240222867164174906_n.png?oh=d18cd23541b58b607997d33b0afd734f&oe=543E1E3E&__gda__=1414212056_db611228d231b43e33628538b3a433c9[/IMG] [IMG]https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t1.0-9/p526x296/10252001_455163164627541_8495404323282136113_n.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=darkedone02;45588781]Not to be an asshole, but have we already moved on from WW1? All of the WW1 Vets have passed on and I think it's time to end any event about ww1 to end permanently. WW1 will forever be in our history books and I think it's time we put WW1 in the back of our minds. I would say the same thing with WW2 but I don't think that will happen until 2040 or later.[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised to hear then that there are still Muslims in the middle-east that hate Europeans because of the Crusades that happened a millennium ago History gets passed down yo

[QUOTE=Cabbage;45598434]'fighting for freedom' just sounds better, and you can't argue that if we didn't fight in WW1 at all Germany wouldn't have invaded.[/QUOTE] Problem with the phrase "fighting for freedom" is that it depends on which side you speak of, including your point of view I suppose. To many Americans, WW2 Allied soldiers fought for freedom, but you won't hear a peep about Wehrmacht soldiers fighting for... anything? I think "Serving their country" is better way of putting it, because it encompasses all who were brave enough to fight. American, British, German, Italian, Austrian, Serbian, ect. And that is exactly what they did, they served their country till the fucking end.