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Post by Waverley on Sept 7, 2009 18:48:20 GMT 1
The Great War was the result of blundering at the highest level by Kaiser Wilhelm the Second. This made Germany more culpable than most I reckon in its role. Bismarck would never have got germany into such a costly(in terms of lifes lost) war. We have travelled down this road before wi' you Jameseybhoy on other boards and to be honest nobody really gives a hoot who started it as it was inevitable that it was going to happen at all costs. The vast majority of Great War 'buffs' are not interested who started it but prefer to remember all the people who fought , died and survived the 'Armageddon' of the Great War battlefields...Brits , French and Germans meet as friends now on the battlefields of Europe blaming no one for starting it but only asking 'how and why did we ever gets this far'.
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Post by Waverley on Sept 8, 2009 6:23:08 GMT 1
It must be an age thing, but I now have an interest that I didn't have before!! Probably because we all grew up knowing someone 'who was there' but we never asked and they never told and they have all gone now and we have lost something that belonged to us all...if only we knew then what we know now and maybe just maybe we would've asked them. : I am only glad that I got the wake up call some twenty years ago and managed to meet some of 'the Boys of the Old Brigade' and my personal life has benefitted from it in many ways...to late to ask my own grandfather who died when I was ten but I have learned a lot about what he went through by talking to others 'who were there'. :'
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Post by brownlee on Sept 8, 2009 18:32:44 GMT 1
Charlie, nothing (apart from demise) is inevitable, including wars. Even the Second World War was not inevitable. The debate on who started the First World War is probably THE longest running historical saga of them all, it is still going on. There have been revisionists, post revisionsts, and that is only the start
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Post by Waverley on Sept 8, 2009 19:30:57 GMT 1
I know who to blame when the Third World War starts Jamesbhoy...
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Post by brownlee on Sept 9, 2009 18:09:51 GMT 1
I wonder who! ;D
Get that freekin h oot oh ma name. ;D
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Post by Waverley on Sept 9, 2009 22:18:12 GMT 1
I wonder who! ;D Get that freekin h oot oh ma name. ;D Take the 'h' oot yer name Jameseybhoy...by you own words in yer book ye condemned yersel...and confessed to being a bead rhattler when you went up the London Road to see your heroes. ;D
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Post by brownlee on Sept 11, 2009 18:01:02 GMT 1
Long time ago Cherlie, long time ago. ;D
I remember it well though!
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Post by peggy on Sept 11, 2009 18:30:16 GMT 1
I have also learned a few things about the great war from my sister its such a fascinating subject ,and so sad hearing all these stories and I ask why what was it all for so many lives lost tragic really but should never be forgotten.
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Post by patrick on Sept 11, 2009 22:59:31 GMT 1
mags as long as there's people like charlie, and wildmcrae, about they won;t be forgotten.
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Post by brownlee on Sept 12, 2009 11:55:44 GMT 1
Yes, We should never, NEVER forget these Brit heroes.
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Post by Waverley on Sept 13, 2009 8:42:41 GMT 1
Yes, We should never, NEVER forget these Brit heroes. Jamesey they were all heroes the Britsh and Commonwealth troops , the French , the Belgians , the Turks and dare I say it the Germans as well... how anyone could have lived and fought in those conditions is hard to even imagine.
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Post by Waverley on Jul 13, 2011 11:25:05 GMT 1
I have been to Captain John Lauder's many times Calamity. In fact when I was over a few weeks ago me and my wife went for lunch at The Poppy Restaurant in Ovillers which looks directly over the fields to the graveyard where he is buried.
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