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Post by Jason Thompson on May 5, 2011 15:45:42 GMT -4
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Post by BertL on May 5, 2011 17:14:11 GMT -4
Another war soon to be forgotten or written off as "ancient history" by the next generations.
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 5, 2011 21:21:13 GMT -4
Another war soon to be forgotten or written off as "ancient history" by the next generations. We're only 3 years away from the 100 year remembrance of it. Terrible to say, but it almost is ancient history. It was the 150th Anniversary of the US Civil War on April 12th, and most people would suggest that that was ancient history too.
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Post by gillianren on May 5, 2011 21:31:58 GMT -4
I'd say the US Civil War is less over than World War I, personally.
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 6, 2011 1:50:54 GMT -4
I'd say the US Civil War is less over than World War I, personally. Really? Checked the Middle East out lately?
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Post by tedward on May 6, 2011 3:11:22 GMT -4
It is sad. I hope and think younger generations will not forget, I do not think they will.
I was sat next to an old gent on a long train journey and we started chatting. The train was stuck at a signal for ages. He mentioned he had spent the post WWII years flying to and from Africa and how much fun it was. No radar, no airtraffic control and fixing the plane in odd places etc and so on and no getting stuck by technology. Seat of the pants flying stuff with cargo or passengers. Then found out he was a bomber pilot, after I asked a foolish question. Where did he learn to fly as per the regaling? Over Germany was the reply. Did not expand on that. Got that feeling when I found out what my Grandfathers did. They were always my grandfather, not warriors, I still cannot put myself in their shoes.
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Post by gillianren on May 6, 2011 3:18:02 GMT -4
Really? Checked the Middle East out lately? Oh, the conflicts there go back far longer than World War I. Or the era of the US Civil War.
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 6, 2011 22:29:03 GMT -4
Really? Checked the Middle East out lately? Oh, the conflicts there go back far longer than World War I. Or the era of the US Civil War. Some of the conflirct does, but a huge amount of it has its roots in the actions of the European Nations in 1917-18 with the promises made and way that they divided up the Ottoman Empire.
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Post by gillianren on May 7, 2011 0:17:22 GMT -4
But part of the reason that was a problem was that countries were divided into countries without regard to conflicts which had been going on for generations at least in the area. It happened in Africa, too. The actions of the European nations after World War I made it worse, but it really only inflamed problems which were already there.
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