100 Years Since The Start of World War 1
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Todaya marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1, Although Britain entered the war on the 4th of August 1914, the actual war broke out on this day, 28th July 1914. So lets all say R.I.P to all the people who died between the 28th July and the 4th August 1914 - Let them never be forgotten! 
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Lest we forget
"The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. "
RIP all those who fought and died in the trenches in the great war and of course do not forget the 200,000 + Irish Nationalist, Unionist and none... in fact its reported to be proportionately the greatest deployment of armed manpower in the history of Irish militarism.
I missed the bridezlla one..
The Liverpool giants told a good story of ww1 this weekend
My Grandma's husband and two brothers died in the hideousness of WW1.
Short of utter global catastrophe such a war can never happen again.
We'd be in a sorry state today without these brave men
R.I.P. to everyone who lost their lives because of the war.
Do you know which one and when? Is there a grave you can or have visited?
My mum knows, I'll have to ask her. I read up on it once but that was about a decade ago.
I've read quite a bit about the Great War and very quickly the numbers become incomprehensible. I remember when our death toll in the current Afghanistan conflict reached 300, and recalled that was the daily loss across the whole trench network just through "attrition."
20,000 British troops killed in one day at the Somme, or 10,000 German troops killed in one mine explosion are just too much to contemplate. IIRC we shot more than 300 of our own men ourselves for so called cowardice or lack of moral fibre.
Apparently Hitler lost his testicle in the Somme
I understood it to be stored within the structure of The Royal Albert Hall.
I thought that was the other one.
That's the one his mother chopped of when he was small
Goebals had no balls
Ach you know how it goes
Lest we forget, Himmler had something similar...
Thousands of Irish men tragically died, it trained up soldiers to fight in the Irish war of Independence against British forces and without WW1 and the annoyance Ireland was getting to the British fighting in Ireland and Europe those 1916 rising leaders might never have been killed in turn the Irish war of independence might never have gained any ground.
The Irish issue is very very complex in both world wars but all who died in the trenches including the central powers (German, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary etc) I hope rest in peace.
http://www.cookstownwardead.co.uk/person.asp?casualtyid=95
BTW RIP Corporal O’Neill, Europe/the west can never repay them for their ultimate sacrifice.
There are a few monuments in the unionist areas with all the names on them, including the catholics, just the same as protestant united Irishmen having monuments in nationalist areas, though I doubt the Catholics who died in WW1 were actually unionists.