True Face of The Great War !
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Nonskimmer
Captain
Not surprising. War is war after all, no matter how we choose to look at it. The Great War was astoundingly brutal, being the first major war to see chemical agents, sub-machine guns, huge artillery (Big Bertha), intense aerial combat, etc., etc. Despite isolated incidents of chivalry, it was a meat grinder like any war.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
That web site is haunting.
102first_hussars
Tech Sergeant
What does everybody know who is Not Canadian about the 2nd battle of Vimy Ridge
Nonskimmer
Captain
Oh!...OH! 
Oh wait, I'm Canadian.
Oh wait, I'm Canadian.
trackend
Chief Master Sergeant
Nonskimmer said:
Agreed Skim its just that earlier conflicts IE before the Crimean US civil war where not recorded on film. but I dont suppose troops hacking each other up with swords, axes and spears was a pretty site either.
Nonskimmer
Captain
No, I doubt very much it would be. Up close, personal, and very, very bloody.trackend said:
Medvedya
Master Sergeant
Vimy Ridge? Well, I know it was a great victory, and some of the trench systems there have been preserved.
Nonskimmer
Captain
102first_hussars
Tech Sergeant
Just out of Curiosity when the Canadians took Vimmy Ridge was that what ended the stalemate between the Triple Alliance and the Allies?
Nonskimmer
Captain
It was certainly a turning point. The ridge was of little strategic importance when viewing the big picture, but it got things moving again after a long period of virtually no movement, and it was the first Allied victory in over a year and the largest to that date on the Western Front. It certainly didn't help the German morale either. But the price in Canadian lives, as well as other Allied lives leading up to the victory, was dear too. See for yourself:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/ar_vimy.html
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/vimyridge.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimy_Ridge
To Canadians, the battle for Vimy Ridge means something. It was the first time that a Canadian force fought as a complete unit in an independent battle, and it was a major victory on the Western Front. It was perhaps this battle that truly identified us as Canadians for the first time in our history. To ourselves most of all.
Just as Newfoundlanders view the battle at Beaumont Hamel as a cornerstone in Newfoundland's history. Although it was a fiasco that nearly wiped out the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. (Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until 1949.)
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/ar_vimy.html
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/vimyridge.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimy_Ridge
To Canadians, the battle for Vimy Ridge means something. It was the first time that a Canadian force fought as a complete unit in an independent battle, and it was a major victory on the Western Front. It was perhaps this battle that truly identified us as Canadians for the first time in our history. To ourselves most of all.
Just as Newfoundlanders view the battle at Beaumont Hamel as a cornerstone in Newfoundland's history. Although it was a fiasco that nearly wiped out the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. (Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until 1949.)
Douglas Jr.
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Douglas Jr.
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102first_hussars
Tech Sergeant
Oh my God.
Man that is horrible those pictures. I have seen some grousome stuff in my service but nothing like that.
evangilder
"Shooter"
War is hell. It's kind of strange, but I am kind of numb to pictures like that. After things I saw during the "war on drugs" in Central and South America, nothing seems shocking anymore. The messed up thing is that I know they should shock me.
trackend
Chief Master Sergeant
I am not keen on images like this although it is improtant everyone gets a little taster of what war at least looks like but of course the viewer is remote from them as they are images and not 4 feet in front of their faces
with the associated smells. I used to get upset if I thought too deeply on who the guys where and their families ect, nowdays if someone is killed at work the normal method of most of the staff for emotional defence is to turn it in to banter and make daft remarks which I dislike intensley and usually end up in rows over.(perhaps that is my method of handling it).
with the associated smells. I used to get upset if I thought too deeply on who the guys where and their families ect, nowdays if someone is killed at work the normal method of most of the staff for emotional defence is to turn it in to banter and make daft remarks which I dislike intensley and usually end up in rows over.(perhaps that is my method of handling it).
