On the eleventh month, of the eleventh day, at the eleventh hour...

[A.J. Holst]

The Great War ended and created the geo political world we live in today

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/on-the-11th-month-the-11th-day-at-the-11th-hour-100-years-ago-today-the-great-war-ended/

Happy Rememberance Day!

[btq96r]

Crazy to think about the conditions and brutality those men endured.  They deserve the rememberance of the 100yr anniversary and beyond.

[xsubsailor]

 “Seven thousand two hundred deaths a day, 300 an hour, five a minute; for more than four and a half years,” 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/11/11/wwi-museum-commemorates-the-human-cost-on-100th-anniversary-7200-deaths-a-day-300-an-hour-5-a-minute/

[A.J. Holst]

2 hours ago, btq96r said:

Crazy to think about the conditions and brutality those men endured.  They deserve the rememberance of the 100yr anniversary and beyond.

Jeff Shaara's 'To the Last Man' is a great piece of historical fiction.

116k US casualties, 63k disease, 53k combat, 12 ish months of engagement.

[Omega]

57 minutes ago, xsubsailor said:

 “Seven thousand two hundred deaths a day, 300 an hour, five a minute; for more than four and a half years,” 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/11/11/wwi-museum-commemorates-the-human-cost-on-100th-anniversary-7200-deaths-a-day-300-an-hour-5-a-minute/

This was just simple math, on some days the count was greater.  Seeing those numbers, you would think no country would want a round 2, be we now know better.

[MacGyver]

3 hours ago, Omega said:

This was just simple math, on some days the count was greater.  Seeing those numbers, you would think no country would want a round 2, be we now know better.

To the French and English especially, but certainly other European countries, WWI is the Great War.  

The US didn’t get involved until late. But, the French lost more than 1.5 million.  The UK, over a million.  The French literally lost a generation of men.  

Thats why these ceremonies still carry such weight.  That weighs on families for a long time.  

[A.J. Holst]

8 hours ago, MacGyver said:

To the French and English especially, but certainly other European countries, WWI is the Great War.  

The US didn’t get involved until late. But, the French lost more than 1.5 million.  The UK, over a million.  The French literally lost a generation of men.  

Thats why these ceremonies still carry such weight.  That weighs on families for a long time.  

Casualties for the great powers exceeded the number of soldiers in their standing armies in 1914.

[Omega]

4 hours ago, Gotthegoods said:

Casualties for the great powers exceeded the number of soldiers in their standing armies in 1914.

Most casualty reports include civilian casualties.

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The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians.

That of course is probably on the low side as I'm sure not all civilians were accounted for, some left or died without leaving anyone to miss them.  Mass graves, and other means were used to dispose of remains, with no survivors left to record that fact.