Posted on 08/03/2014 3:08:58 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The French and German presidents have commemorated the 100th anniversary of Germany's declaration of war on France on 3 August 1914.
Francois Hollande and his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, made a joint tribute in Alsace to soldiers killed during World War One.
They were to lay the first stone for a memorial at Vieil Armand cemetery.
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BTW, have you a soft spot for monarchies or something? You remember don’t you how we, America, came to be, right?
Monarchies, particularly, the British Monarchy are part of who WE are as Americans.
Americans did not appear out of thin air in Plymouth.
We have a past that many date back to the Magna Carta but that stretches far beyond that.
Our Ancestors are not evil because they are not exactly like us. Nor stupid or bigoted.
While we all admire the Magna Carta we also know that King John was forced to it.
I have nothing against the monarchy of England, in fact, my tag line refers directly to my favorite king, but I’m not blind to their history. They shed rivers of blood in their time.
There were no real monarchies during the First World War? Barbara Tuchman - no slouch - places the war directly onto the shoulders of the Kaiser. Tsar Nicholas still had a tiny bit of power as I remember. His bad use of it didn’t help him while revolution was shaking his throne. I think it was World War I that DESTROYED the fate of the monarchies which was not a bad thing.
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