The Great War

p.s. sorry if i was intruding on a private conversation. :halo:

Sad that it is called the great war. I'm not sure any war is great. They were attempting to capture the monstrous scope of it but could it not have been the large, massive, all encompassing, huge, big, worst or other descriptor?

Well the reason it is the Great War is because if you have any interest in War itself it is the epitomy of war, the first modern battle, so many nations and so much loss. Sadly.

:(

In a way, it was the "end of civilization as we know it"
We can't comprehend the civilization that stood
before the war of 1914-1918.

The people who experienced it felt so traumatized,
that many never recovered emotionally
The world was permanently changed.

I think it was a more significant turning point
in history than the war that followed a
generation later.
WW1 set the moral tone for the remainder
of the 20th century.

The first modern genocide (in Armenia),
set the pattern for things to come.
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