[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenL. I'm not going to ping the list, just add it to the catalog, under "Thoroughly Modern Miscellany". The loss of life in WWI was atrocious. One would have thought that the Allied command would have learned its lesson from Flanders and not made the same stupid blunder in the Battle of the Somme, in which almost a quarter of all WWI casualties took place.

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[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, 1/4 is way too high. The total casualties are shown as 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and an estimated 500,000 German casualties. However, the British and French systematically underreported Allied casualties and issued inflated estimates of German casualties.

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I by John Mosier paperback

[nickcarraway]

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields