21 Feb. Cannon-fodder celebrations in France

vanderfred · 21-02-2016, 01:59 PM

Today the French are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, without actually knowing why it existed in the first place.

Under the pretext of a murder disguised as a suicide at Mayerling, followed by the assassination of an obscure archduke that nobody had ever heard of at Sarajevo, millions of innocent dummies on both sides were killed, along with millions of others mutilated and maimed, for what?

The only tangible result of the "war to end wars," the Great War," and the "War for Civilisation," (as written on my grandfather's medals), as far as I can figure out was the liberation of Palestine from the Ottoman empire. Apart from that, it seems to have been a fairly useless waste of innocent lives unless someone can come up with a better reason for the war.

21-02-2016, 01:59 PM	#1
vanderfred Member Join Date: Feb 2016 Posts: 96 Likes: 55 (31 Posts)	21 Feb. Cannon-fodder celebrations in France Today the French are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, without actually knowing why it existed in the first place. Under the pretext of a murder disguised as a suicide at Mayerling, followed by the assassination of an obscure archduke that nobody had ever heard of at Sarajevo, millions of innocent dummies on both sides were killed, along with millions of others mutilated and maimed, for what? The only tangible result of the "war to end wars," the Great War," and the "War for Civilisation," (as written on my grandfather's medals), as far as I can figure out was the liberation of Palestine from the Ottoman empire. Apart from that, it seems to have been a fairly useless waste of innocent lives unless someone can come up with a better reason for the war.