12-01-14, 10:00 PM
My Great Grand Father got killed in the battle of Arras, no doubt along with 10,000's of others. Needless bloody slaughter.
I visited the grave a few years back, I'm guessing the first from my family to do so. Though I've no idea, as thanks to the Great War I've distant family in Canada of whom I know nothing of.
Can believe all this talk recently of celebrating The Great War.
I was quite taken with some of the things that Harry Patch said,
War is organised murder and nothing else....politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder. Harry Patch.
Sharp till the day he died I think.
I visited the grave a few years back, I'm guessing the first from my family to do so. Though I've no idea, as thanks to the Great War I've distant family in Canada of whom I know nothing of.
Can believe all this talk recently of celebrating The Great War.
I was quite taken with some of the things that Harry Patch said,
War is organised murder and nothing else....politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder. Harry Patch.
Sharp till the day he died I think.