[Psalm 144]

Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. May they rest in peace, and may God keep them all. All of them.

[luvbach1]

Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918.

To that, and not to slight in the least the sacrifices of WWI or any other conflict, I would add the American Civil War; in lives, one of the costliest in human history.

[kearnyirish2]

“Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. May they rest in peace, and may God keep them all. All of them.”

The next time FReepers refer to the French as “surrender monkeys”, or question their attitudes in WWII, remember that in WWI (the “war to end all wars”) they lost 1.7 million men. Our Civil War (in which both sides’ casualties were Americans) cost 600K.

[TalBlack]

Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. May they rest in peace, and may God keep them all. All of them.

Ditto.