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9 years ago
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This is the year 2016, and I have realized how much I have been neglecting the events of my favorite topic in history. WW1 from 1914 to 1918 the war that changed the world as we know it. Because two years ago marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning and I fear if I neglect 11/11/2018 I want to do something fun, and encourage any history enthusiast to give it a shot.
The rules:
Imagine that you are you, your past your present and your future, however you were born exactly100 years before your actual birth date. Where would you be now if it were 4/16/1916. Would you be in the Somme fighting for the fate of Europe or subsequently the world, on a farm in Kansas producing crops to make ends meat, or a steal mill in Boston or wherever. Use where you were born and where you are now as a pinpoint and compare what might have occurred if you were in that culture during that era. Just fun in depth and might require research to better grasp what life was like in the early 1900's but its a great thought.
Below is my own Entry, and as stated I encourage people to reply with their own analysis:
Judging by my family history as is, I would be born in 09/26/1885 in the US settled New Mexico Territory of Portales. Growing up I more than likely would have resentment to other races since my family fought on the Confederate side in a war that was still fresh in the minds of the country. Even thought I am mixed race the core beliefs that both my parents reflect are of southern values.
We would move to a small town which would eventually be named Artesia in 1903 and then be incorporated in 1905. My mother and father would have been seperated around 1897 and remarry in 1898. As a child I would live in several settlements and finally return to a freshly named Artesia in 1903 to become a laborer as either a grave digger or construction.
New Mexico would officially become a state in 1912 and by this time I would be working various jobs to keep afloat and even being homeless for a year until I land a job in Carlsbad. When Archduke Ferdinad was assassinated I would still be in Carlsbad working ditches or construction, and I would move to Missouri in late 1914 to work either construction or a telephone technician.
Europe seems so far away and although I naturally would be curious about how that is fairing, being engulfed in my work I would have no time to be concerned.
By March 1916 my biggest concern would be Pancho Villa. Since I grew up in New Mexico and the invasion hits closer to home and my southern upbringing in spite of my hispanic heritage would lead me to be resentful against Mexico. I would be eager to join the army to hunt him down but due to health I would not be accepted. This event might open my eyes to be more aware of world events.
And that is at least my speculation on how I would be if I were alive 100 years ago. I would be excited to see other view from other people especially in other nations.
historyfursThis is the year 2016, and I have realized how much I have been neglecting the events of my favorite topic in history. WW1 from 1914 to 1918 the war that changed the world as we know it. Because two years ago marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning and I fear if I neglect 11/11/2018 I want to do something fun, and encourage any history enthusiast to give it a shot.
The rules:
Imagine that you are you, your past your present and your future, however you were born exactly100 years before your actual birth date. Where would you be now if it were 4/16/1916. Would you be in the Somme fighting for the fate of Europe or subsequently the world, on a farm in Kansas producing crops to make ends meat, or a steal mill in Boston or wherever. Use where you were born and where you are now as a pinpoint and compare what might have occurred if you were in that culture during that era. Just fun in depth and might require research to better grasp what life was like in the early 1900's but its a great thought.
Below is my own Entry, and as stated I encourage people to reply with their own analysis:
Judging by my family history as is, I would be born in 09/26/1885 in the US settled New Mexico Territory of Portales. Growing up I more than likely would have resentment to other races since my family fought on the Confederate side in a war that was still fresh in the minds of the country. Even thought I am mixed race the core beliefs that both my parents reflect are of southern values.
We would move to a small town which would eventually be named Artesia in 1903 and then be incorporated in 1905. My mother and father would have been seperated around 1897 and remarry in 1898. As a child I would live in several settlements and finally return to a freshly named Artesia in 1903 to become a laborer as either a grave digger or construction.
New Mexico would officially become a state in 1912 and by this time I would be working various jobs to keep afloat and even being homeless for a year until I land a job in Carlsbad. When Archduke Ferdinad was assassinated I would still be in Carlsbad working ditches or construction, and I would move to Missouri in late 1914 to work either construction or a telephone technician.
Europe seems so far away and although I naturally would be curious about how that is fairing, being engulfed in my work I would have no time to be concerned.
By March 1916 my biggest concern would be Pancho Villa. Since I grew up in New Mexico and the invasion hits closer to home and my southern upbringing in spite of my hispanic heritage would lead me to be resentful against Mexico. I would be eager to join the army to hunt him down but due to health I would not be accepted. This event might open my eyes to be more aware of world events.
And that is at least my speculation on how I would be if I were alive 100 years ago. I would be excited to see other view from other people especially in other nations.
But taking from your example, I would have been born in 1883, when my family would have still been in Germany. They emigrated in 1885 and settled in the Illinois/Wisconsin area, where many still reside. I grew up on six acres of land with farms and woodlands all around and spent much time exploring the woods, and I should think it wouldn't have been too different in the past. I like to read and write and daydream and generally don't pay too much attention to what's going on in the world unless it has some direct correlation to me, but I'm sure something as big as WWI wouldn't have gone unnoticed. I do know I had an ancestor who was in WWI, so maybe it would have affected me had I lived at the time.
Being a female, it's a little harder for me to say what I may have been doing at the time, as women were still highly dependent on men then. I'm a strong introvert to the point of being a near recluse, so I am still without a boyfriend, yet back then the social norms were so different that it's really hard for me to say how things might have been. That said, the fact that socializing was so much more common--indeed, almost required--I'm sure it would have been much easier for me to find someone I'm interested in.
But I digress. That didn't really work too well as there's just too much speculation. XD But I tried.
Ooooh - as a 52 year old Veteran of the Australian Light horse, I would likely have rejoined the colours in 1914. Given the period and my education, I'd likely have served in the 1890's as a lieutenant of the WAMI (Western Australian Mounted Infantry). The old regiment I served with was used as the cadre for the 25th and 10th Australian Light Horse 1n 1915. I'd have likely been posted with the 10th (which is local).
Experienced but a tad old for overseas service, I would probably be bumped up to Captain, then Major and used as a training officer at Clairmont here in Perth all through 1914/15. With the regiment taking heavy losses in Gallipoli, there would be a high chance of being sent to Palestine as the unit re-forms and patches itself and reequips as Mounted troops at the start of 16.
Which leads to mounted campaigning all through 17 and 18, including the charge at Beersheba.
Australian cavalry stay in the area securing Iranian independence from the White Russians and defending Transoxania from the Reds until 1921.
V.
I would have been born in 1891, I'd still have been in Germany at the time as none of my family had emmigrated quite yet. If I'm me, I would have had a whole world of hurt coming, the only real solace for me would have been when I would be 30~ in the 1920s down the line and if I had moved to Berlin and even then it still wouldn't have been fun.
My family had been bird trainers and basic ditch diggers, so I wouldn't have been well off, so most likely I would have been married off or, since I'm me still, probably put that off until I was beyond salvaging and since I don't have any siblings it wouldn't be hurting no one. I would move from where I originated to across the country to start a new life (as true to what has happened to me now) most likely on my fathers money since I wouldn't have had any/much to begin with as I am female-bodied.
I'd be one of those "eccentric" types, probably served as a nurse, later lived my life as a "female husband", Gone by Andreas Schmidt, Probably gotten a few books published under said name, left no children, probably killed by some Nazi/the Nazis later.
I don't know the french side of my family that well (because, my Viêt Grandfather has biographies so I was able to learn a bit more about him :p), but I would probably have died in the trenches while fighting the germans. Maybe I would have infected my leg too come back to the civil life as an amputee, being rejected by society afterwards.
Well, I don't really know about WWI, but I know that both side of my family fought against the Nazis in WWII, as resistant.
I would have been born April 17th 1864. Parents were both academics, recently moved to California, father from central Kansas, Mother a well travelled local, and daughter4 of European (Baltic) Nobility. they met in college, father having served his enlistment in the Mexican War. I would have graduated from Mayfield school in 1882, and spent two years at San Jose Normal school. Due to disagreements with father, I left college, not liking the college life, and getting work, first as an orderly at a Hospital, then various cook jobs, while taking classes in Technical drafting. I would moonlight through the 80's and 90's as a newspaper strip artist and illustrator, until i got a big break, working for a San Francisco newspaper, as an Editorial cartoonist. I would spend weekends with the local militia (artillery), but come the Spanish American war, would decline to enlist. sometime around 1905, I would relocate to Los Angeles, hoping to get a better position with another newspaper, but things did not work out, and I would end up as a "glass painter" and title card artist , for early motion picture companies around Hollywood. the pay is not nearly what I had at the newspaper, but the work is fascinating. I miss the 1906 earthquake, but my family survives. at the start of 1914, My father passes away, and later that year, the "guns of August" erupt. Due to my Mother's ancestry, and previous work in the newspaper, i am very aware of the world situation, and treat it personally as entertainment. Shuttling between my mother's house and My own through 1914 and 1915, to help settle father's affairs and console her as her family in Europe are knocked over one by one. (As an aside, I might even be in the very building i am sitting in, as it was built as a hotel in 1913, near the busiest intersection in Los Angeles at the time, Wilshire & Western). from here on out, I probably would have worked at small studios, looking for a more permanent position, not really wanting to retire, but keep working until I keeled over in my chair, at work somewhere in the sound and technicolor era.
or I could have been like my Great Grandfather, and joined the Navy out of High School and had been a carreer Navy Man until my retirement in 1929.
being a voracious reader as my whole family has been for generations is a bit of a perk.