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My cousin's brother's death notice in the Lubbock newspaper, 1918. He was a braver man than I, driving an ambulance through the field of Chateu-Thierry. They say he got blowed up, but I can only hope that's what happened, considering the abundant horrible ways to go out offered by the World War.
Never been shot at, myself. Shot around, sure, just not _at,_ ever. I would have totally decided to move to Bolivia if I'd been given the chance to go the trenches to fight the Kaiser. But that's based on hindsight--if I'd lived back then, those U-boats would have sure pissed me off good, despite me living a day's journey from the nearest ocean.
But what was that "homemade fireless cooker contest" thing about, anyway? I didn't know they made solar furnaces in 1918??
Never been shot at, myself. Shot around, sure, just not _at,_ ever. I would have totally decided to move to Bolivia if I'd been given the chance to go the trenches to fight the Kaiser. But that's based on hindsight--if I'd lived back then, those U-boats would have sure pissed me off good, despite me living a day's journey from the nearest ocean.
But what was that "homemade fireless cooker contest" thing about, anyway? I didn't know they made solar furnaces in 1918??
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A message for all who want to get everybody together and march up Time's asshole into the past: things sucked back then. They suck now, but they sucked worse back then. Case in point: World War Two was marginally better then World War One, with respect to the single factor of chemical warfare. Despite the inter-war use of horrifying poisonous gases on "primitive" (i.e. "they don't have airplanes") cultures by the U.K., fascist Italy, and AHEM probably Japan,
none of the great powers used poison gas on each other in World War Two. Not even at Stalingrad and Okinawa.
I would call that a minor improvement. Not great, since everybody got just as dead, but...ehhhh...slightly better.
none of the great powers used poison gas on each other in World War Two. Not even at Stalingrad and Okinawa.
I would call that a minor improvement. Not great, since everybody got just as dead, but...ehhhh...slightly better.
I think it depends on who you are. I'd rather be a soldier in WW2 than WW1 given the choice, but a civilian?
You were far less likely to have to learn how to say "Please don't kill my wife and daughter after you're done raping them" in Russian; Convince a skeptical SS officer that no, your hair is just curly and you like how you look with a beard do you want some bacon please God don't kill me; Or try and talk a Japanese soldier out of playing bayonet volleyball with your head as a civilian in WW1 than WW2.
You were far less likely to have to learn how to say "Please don't kill my wife and daughter after you're done raping them" in Russian; Convince a skeptical SS officer that no, your hair is just curly and you like how you look with a beard do you want some bacon please God don't kill me; Or try and talk a Japanese soldier out of playing bayonet volleyball with your head as a civilian in WW1 than WW2.
Yeah, no kidding, right? Although the Kaiser's military leaders worked manfully night and day for everybody to hate them, a lot of the stuff that was claimed about them was B.S. (Louvain and the Lusitania not included, though). And the Japanese were still trying hard to appear civilized after the bad press they got chopping people's heads off in the Sino-Japanese War. And they hadn't yet encountered the solid wall of racism that helped them decide there was no payoff in trying to impress Europeans and Americans that you could act as non-bloody as them. So yeah...
As for when would you rather be a soldier? And for whom? I'm not sure--the American military, despite the triumphant stuff I read in history books for school children, is not always terribly concerned about the personal safety of its members.
As for when would you rather be a soldier? And for whom? I'm not sure--the American military, despite the triumphant stuff I read in history books for school children, is not always terribly concerned about the personal safety of its members.
The Americans might not be terribly concerned about it's soldiers (although the British line on them "Over-paid, over-sexed and over-here" makes them sound like the better option regardless), but they entered late, and were on the winning side. So compared to the alternatives of get shot for retreating and eventually sent to the Gulag if captured; Have everything go brilliantly for a few years then suddenly find yourself hunkered down in Stalingrad surrounded by a million angry Russians and dependent on Herman Goering's logistical ability to keep yourself supplied with food and fuel or the Japanese choice of squaring off against Zhukov in Manchuria and winding up in Siberia or against the Americans in the Pacific who knew that Japanese soldiers were brainwashed subhumans who would only just pretend to surrender in order to attack, (Seriously, you know a war is brutal when the Soviets look like the humane ones) service with the Americans seems like the best of a bad lot.
Fireless cookers could be any number of things, a Dutch Oven for example, but this link should help http://www.hearthcook.com/aaFirelesscooker.html :3c
50c prize in the chilli sauce competition! We're there dude!
Aaah - WWI: One of my sad obsessions. As is chemical warfare in WWI!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gUUMI2xk8
Check it out from 1.30. Horses in gas masks. Keeeen!
Aaah - WWI: One of my sad obsessions. As is chemical warfare in WWI!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gUUMI2xk8
Check it out from 1.30. Horses in gas masks. Keeeen!
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