"June 28 1914" Topic
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Ottoathome | 27 Jun 2014 6:14 p.m. PST |
Dear List Tomorrow is a significant date. 100 years ago tomorrow the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Assasinated in Sarajevo starting World War One. The war was an unmitigated catastrophe which, with its inevitable successor, the Second World War, blighted a century and brought untold suffering upon mankind the consequences of which reverberate down to our present day and will probably continue on for centuries. Please take time to remember the poor souls who were killed, maimed and brutalized in that war and say a prayer for them. There are generations yet ungotten and unborn that will have cause to mourn the actions of that day. Otto |
Great War Ace | 27 Jun 2014 6:58 p.m. PST |
I don't know, human memory is just so dammed shortsighted. In my more hopeful moments, it is nice to imagine that the lessons of the "thirty years war of the twentieth century" will not be lost on future generations. But so much of the world has no clue that war is wrong – look at the Middle East. Future misery for generations yet unborn will result from their own stupidity, not some memory of the two world wars of the receding past. But I appreciate your sentiments and say "amen" to that
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darthfozzywig | 27 Jun 2014 9:24 p.m. PST |
About 75 years from the assassination to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Crazy stuff. |
14Bore | 28 Jun 2014 4:49 p.m. PST |
I saw a story that that the Serbian's erected a statue for Gavrilo Princip today. |
Martin Rapier | 29 Jun 2014 10:32 a.m. PST |
"There are generations yet ungotten and unborn that will have cause to mourn the actions of that day." Well, at lest we have learned: a) jingoistic nationalism is a Bad Thing. b) mass industrialised warfare is a Bad Thing. whilst we haven't entirely eliminated (a), we are much more cynical about the lunacies our dear leaders like to pursue, and we have managed to avoid (b) for quite some time now. |
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