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Location: CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND
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An unlearned lesson..........how the death of one man can cause the deaths of 9 million more.
100 Years ago tomorrow (July 28th) the Great War, which became known as World War 1, started and 9 million combatants died. The catalyst was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo on the 28th June 1914. LEST WE FORGET |
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they still find bombs, shrapnell ore other relics in and near flanders fields here daily, most of them are never reported
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Location: NC, U.S.A.
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It seems inconceivable how events sometimes fall into place. It is shocking and incredibly sad that the death of one man, even a great one, could spark a conflict that would kill the equivelant population of a small European country. Even today, if one thinks about what might happen if a certain world leader were to fall, would we march right back into destruction? The chaos of those times were also the lit fuse, but we can see many comparisons today with world instability...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
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Remember the battle of La Lys (April 1918), the greatest Portuguese war catastrophe since Alcácer Kibir in 1578.
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The Scots have good reason to remember a certain Anibal Milhais a Portuguese soldier and his heroism during the fighting at the Lys offensive.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. |
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