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When I was much younger I was sitting outside a motel and started talking to an older man who told of his life in the trenches in France WW1. He spoke quietly about the trenches the rats and the green gruel that the red cross would try to get to them if they were lucky. I felt so sad that such a forgotten hero had come to the end of his life outside of a broken down motel. I hope his spirit is at peace I hope he's with God.
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My great grandfather fought in ww1 France and kept a daily journal, my dad recently passed away and I read through the journal. My great grandfathers last journal entry was āspent night in no manās land, advance slowly behind artillery in the morningā. He ended up losing his leg and laid in no manās land for 3 days before he was rescued. A miracle he lived
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Respect for not censoring the images and footage by blurring out the gruesome sights. People need to understand the gravity of historical events but YT guidelines seem to think otherwise these days. I appreciate your integrity to education.
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My great grand father lost his leg to a shrapnel blast at Passchendaele and served with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. He was 17 years old at the time and lived a long life. He did not want any of us to enlist even though he knew that my cousins and I would. He never spoke about the war until a few years before his death. It was horrible to hear. He said that the artillery bombardments were so loud that you couldn't hear anything but the infernal roar going on around. He couldn't hear himself screaming at times. I think that he he relived those bombardments when he was sleeping. Eighty years on and he was still having loud enough night terrors that he would wake us up. Grandpa Lachlan was supposedly an angry man for most of his life, but we never saw it. To us, he was a gentle man, and was quick to smile. What he went through in 1916 and 1917 though was bad enough that I don't know how any of those lads ever smiled again.
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When I was a kid in the 1950ās I knew my Grandmothers neighbor was both a WWI and WWII vet. He had this fabulous gun collection I would enjoy looking at in his office. Walter never talked about his war time experiences except one day he was showing me this beautiful broom handle nine millimeter pistol when he said, ā The German soldier who I got this from took twelve shots at me with this.ā
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There are not enough tears in the universe that could be shed for these children .
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My grandfather was in the battle of Somme. Generals far behind the front threw 10s of thousands of soldiers to their certain deaths against machine gun fire. Both sides won and lost the very same parcels of ground for the arrogance of inhumane leaders. He watched his brothers rot and rats consume the bodies they could not bury. Nothing about this war was honourable or just. The poor were used as cannon fodder, nothing less, while the privileged played chess with their souls!
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Bless them all. Those who didn't survive and those who did. In a sense, the ones who didn't were out of it. Those who did had to live it again and again through the rest of their lives. We owe them everything.
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just recently started doing some research on the great war & im blown away that I didnāt know so much of this before. iām only 22, & that terrifies me as it would be me on those front lines walking straight into a German MG. the ultimate respect goes out from me to fighters on all sides. this is something we should all see and know, despite the horrors as this is so easily forgotten by us over a hundred years later.
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In 2001 I experienced trench foot. I was hiking for 2 weeks, stupidly walked through a steam and kept hiking, I didnāt know trench foot was a thing. It was painful. But I had access to rest, clean river water and first aid. I had to keep hiking, but I still had it so much better than those soldiers who entire feet where probably blistered, macerated from the moisture and filth. Prime for infection. No rest, nothing proper medicine.
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I read Frank Richards 'old soldiers never die.' Amazingly a welsh solider that had been in the army from before the war and survived it.
What is desperately sad is how he described coming home. To family that had no comprehension, to communities that just wanted to forget. This meant that soldiers came home to people that loated the reminder that they were, no public sympathy, they were never heroes. Which may be the most heartbreaking thing to hear, if it wasn't for the fact that the government completely disregarded them, provided them no opportunity or money when they returned.
Many veterans would lead miserable lives with the memory of those 4 years, many veterans would lead miserable lives because no-one wanted to remember or care for those miserable years.
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For anyone with an interest in "the enemy", I can heartily recommend "The Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger. He was a serving soldier and Stormtrooper during WW1, signing up at the outset and surviving through to the end. He seems to have been utterly unmoved by the slaughter and destruction he witnessed and was ready to fight on for another 4 years. To gauge his mettle and the Stormtrooper pysche, I quote the last paragraph of his book.
"Now these [battles] are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of fresh ones. We - by this I mean those of the youth of this land who are capable of enthusiasm for an ideal - will not shrink from them. We stand in the memory of the dead who are holy to us, and we believe ourselves entrusted with the true and spiritual welfare of our people. We stand for what will be and for what has been. Though force without and barbarity within conglomerate in sombre clouds, yet as long as the blade of a sword will strike a spark in the night, may it be said: Germany lives and Germany shall never go under..."
Hardly surprising we faced WW2 barely 20 years later...
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Jesusā¦. The things that men go through. Iām grateful for you guys. Bless you all!!
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I really appreciate the soldiers accounts for example when it came to the German soldier he spoke in German rather than have a āFake German accentā. Made it more genuine. And thank you for not censoring. Lately YT has been doing that but I, just like everyone else here believes that history shall not be censored. We must face the truth of what really happened.
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Probably because itās one of the first times we documented and studied the trauma that war caused.
Iām sure watching your bros get their heads lobbed off or impaled during sword combat was traumatic back in the day..
Skyās going dark with arrows, followed by everyone around you dead.. Im sure they werenāt all smiles back then.
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My Great, Great Uncle (a Manchester Pal) was injured by a shelling in the run up to the Battle of the Somme, he passed away in a field hospital two days before the main offensive. Iāve visited his war grave and seen the land that we wasted so many young lives over, itās a truly sobering and powerful place. Our top brass rarely learned the lessons they ought to have and even when they did the cost in lives was biblical.
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My Grandfather fought through the war in the trenches. He was wounded 7 times, patched up and put back. He finished the war as a Sgt.
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One of those men - Ernest Luke Moss 1st Bn Somerset Light Infantry - was a ancestor of mine who fought for the first time on that day. And died. No known grave and commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
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My old grandad who passed away in 1978 fought in salonika in Greece in the Seaforth highlanders.Not once did he talk about it never did I ask. I know what he saw the friends he lost as I had an encyclopedia of the war from 1914 to 1916 with all the black and white pictures.The saddest part was all the pictures of the dead as fresh young men when they joined up.These encyclopedias can still be bought these original books.I would love to have that book I gave away. I never appreciated the sacrifice and bravery as a teenager in the 80s.
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