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

[Shinycow]

[QUOTE=dai;45527182]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.[/QUOTE]

Ok but I pointed out more than just Benghazi. Nobody even has tried to say I'm wrong about everything else, but the minute I point out Benghazi everyone loses their shit.

[ScurrTheSecond]

I have a lot of people with my surname on there, and quite a few of them are Canadian which is surprising as Hell.

[Zillamaster55]

My great grandpa got Smallpox and wasn't able to serve. He survived the disease, but when he recovered the war was over.

I wonder what would have happened to him if he didn't get sick.

[Showgun]

to the lost generation, brave men

[Sungrazer]

I can't believe it's been 100 years. It didn't seem like it was that long ago when I was learning about it in school.

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

Somewhere around 20,000 people [B][I][U]starved to death[/U][/I][/B] today. That many will again tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after. 300 people in a plane crash means nothing. It's just because it's all at once and the media shoves it in your face for 3 weeks.

[Tobin]

Well I guess my great great great uncle died in Somme.

RIP