seitengewehr98
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Well, I just thought I would share this with the forum. Apparently, this article is about the last living actual US veteran of WWI, though he was never in the trenches. This article brings up some good points about this largely forgotten war (especially forgotten in the US, where we tend to forget most things like this). I'm a young guy, only 28, and I rather stumbled into an interest in WWI. It is a war that simply does not compare to WWII. Apples and oranges. So many things were unique to that war. The Christmas Truce is something that comes to mind. It was a war where the enemy wasn't so cut and dry. A war that in my opinion, discounting the holocaust of WWII, was far more horrible than any other great war. Again in my opinion, it's a far more interesting, far more complicated war than WWII ever could be. It's also nice being able to have an interest in the "enemy" without the creepy, twisted feeling of knowing that they were responsible for the death of so many innocents. I don't feel at all bad having a WWI Imperial German Kreigsflag in my room. A red looming flag with a swastika has a chilling affect, however. And now that the last of the vets are slipping away, it is a war that has become that much harder to touch. It's a damn shame they don't get the respect they deserve (though in the US, very few vets do).
Just some observations. Here's the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12rubin.html?
Finally, for the all the vets out there (myself included), Happy Veterans Day.
Nate
Just some observations. Here's the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12rubin.html?
Finally, for the all the vets out there (myself included), Happy Veterans Day.
Nate
