QuoteReplyTopic: Remembering the war dead Posted: 09-Nov-2008 at 19:31
Remembrance Sunday, or Armistice Day, 11th minute of the 11th hour of
the 11th month (1918), is the day we will and always should remember
the 65 million WWI dead.
The horror of that suddenly-modern
warfare is quite often too horrific to put into words, the killing rate
was approximately 5,600 men per day.
In Britain alone, 743,000
men were slaughtered in those four bloody years (a further 150,000 died
of Spanish Influenza during a horrific pandemic that killed 25-50
million worldwide)- and several thousand men from various nationalities
were killed on the very last day of WWI.
Of course, many other brutal wars, campaigns and conflicts have scarred humanity since, even today.
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