[Nextrush]

On Remembrance Day tomorrow two minutes of silence at 11am in the UK.

Peter Hitchens remembers those who died and the death of civilization he sees coming out of the First World War.

[Chainmail]

Excellent article.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I do believe that WWI was the beginning of the end of civilization. A true historic turning point. I don't think Europe has recovered, or will ever recover. On every level --- political, social, physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual --- it was smashed. WWII came roaring on its heels like an opportunistic disease taking down an already wretched, weakened sufferer.

Even the post -WWII recovery was blighted with signs of moral and spiritual death.

And that is still with us, with a vengeance.

[Bratch]

[Captain Peter Blood]

In the forward of Adolphus Huxley’s book “Brave New World”, Huxley talks about W.W. I. He mentions The Fifth Marquis of Lansdowne, a man he called the last great Conservative. In 1917 he wrote a letter to the Times stating that the time had come to sue for peace.

This had been the way that Europeans Wars had been settled for 100’s of years. The powers would meet, draw up a peace treaty, divide the spoils so to speak and end things. Lansdowne was shunned for writing and making such a proposal and the war dragged on to it’s sorry conclusion with a great loss of life.

[grumpygresh]

It really comes down to demographics. Losing so many men to death and injury resulted in a big drop in the birth rate. This big drop that rippled though the decades.

In France for example, people had big families before WW1. After the war, the birth rate decreased because there were fewer men, but the birth rate continued to be depressed well after the war because families had fewer children. The decline of the cultural influence of Christianity, overall rising affluence, and birth control are cited as the chief factors for lower bith rates. This became the norm which has persisted to this day.

The Muslim invasion is the final nail.

[Geronimo]

The English Toffs & Upper Class Public Schoolboys sustained approx 20% of the casualties in World War I...the names of the fallen at Eton College are a humbling sight...

Death of our best and brightest...Daily Express 02/09/14...

[dfwgator]

It wasn’t only Britain. All of Europe lost her best and brightest, and they have never recovered.

[IronJack]

And yet, after WWI and its tectonic aftermath, after the previous century, with its Napoleons, after the century before that, with the French Revolution, and the previous century, with the English Revolution ... after all those ... we are no closer to peace than we have ever been.

Man's eternal state is war. It is war that defines us, war that is the rule, not the exception. The brief moments in between are nothing more than preparation for the next.

[Menehune56]

It will always be “The Great War.”

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Give me the Kaiser and the Tsar, any day.....

The Kaiser and the Tsar, both grandsons of Queen Victoria.

[familyop]

"Give me the Kaiser and the Tsar, any day....."

No thanks. I like the system in the U.S.A. and what remains of the culture. And as for those men, they were indeed soldiers.

[MuttTheHoople]

All this hooey to commemorate the beginning of a 21 year armistice to a war that only ended December 31, 1991, when the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

[familyop]

This includes insightful information about World War 1 (covers Prussia, World War 1 and World War 2). The history of the Huns should be learned in light of the history of the Prussians and Nazis, too.

HERE IS GERMANY 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYaRCV0a26s

[familyop]

This one has a clearer picture.

Here is Germany May 8 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6J7yRnEus

[nutmeg]

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[TChad]

bflr

[WMarshal]

Great article, it sums up the tragedy of the Firet World War.

[silverleaf]

Good article

[Redleg Duke]

Europe lost its best via emigration to the New World. The best that remained was mostly slaughtered in World War I. What was left was lost in World War II, and now, the “floor-sweepings” of the gene pool are busy surrendering to the Caliphate!

Sic Transit Gloria Munde!