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The first Great War.

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Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#1 - 2014-08-04 20:47:56 UTC
Today marks the Day Britain joined WWI. 2200hours. Britain remembers.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28632223

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Nose' Feliciano
#2 - 2014-08-04 21:55:13 UTC
Brits kicked major ass in both wars. Way to go!!!!

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Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#3 - 2014-08-04 21:56:55 UTC
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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-08-04 22:49:12 UTC
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And salute to over 37 million casualties slaughtered in an unnecessary war that could have been easily avoided if only the politicians had wanted it.

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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#5 - 2014-08-04 23:25:39 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
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And salute to over 37 million casualties slaughtered in an unnecessary war that could have been easily avoided if only the politicians had wanted it.


I salute all 37 million casualties as well and will throw in that if the industrial machine tycoons had wanted the war to not happen they would have told the politicians to stand down.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#6 - 2014-08-04 23:49:49 UTC
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We shall remember them

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stoicfaux
#7 - 2014-08-05 19:19:03 UTC
Remind me again, which war(s) were "great"?

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#8 - 2014-08-05 19:54:00 UTC
Both were stupid. Prepare for another. Put your fools hats folks, those impenetr4able ones.

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Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#9 - 2014-08-05 19:56:09 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Remind me again, which war(s) were "great"?


I think it's self explanetory, don't you? Or you could just google it. But I think you are just being awkward for the sake of being awkward...

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#10 - 2014-08-05 20:22:43 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Remind me again, which war(s) were "great"?



the 'great' here refers to 'large' not 'awesome' . It was at the time the largest scale conflict the world had seen, hence 'great war'


As Belgian, I salute the British for their rapid assistance on that dark day. Only a few hours after the war started for us, Britain/UK let us know they stood by us by declaring war & sending troops over a few days later. The delay helped in escorting many civilians to the safety of France.

And yet, today it should also be a reminder of a great thing, who back then could think Europe today would stand as a united continent, where arch-enemies of old now work side by side.
We tend to take our united Europe for granted, but it's memorials like this that remind us that for most of our history, it was a battlefield.

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Ian Morbius
Robby Altair Corporation
#11 - 2014-08-06 02:29:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Ian Morbius
It is a good time to read again the The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#12 - 2014-08-06 03:00:21 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Remind me again, which war(s) were "great"?



"great" as in a measure of scale.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#13 - 2014-08-06 08:53:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
United europe? You must be joking, its like picking one kid from a pack, beating him badly, then another one, until only bullys from the islands and other continents are left, that means there is not much stamina left to put them down. Then the bullys goes and beats the bad european guys and the europeans can live traumatized for the rest of their life with bullys laughin from their funny cars. This is european way.

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ISD Supogo
ISD BH
ISD Alliance
#14 - 2014-08-07 02:17:09 UTC
This can only go downhill I fear. Locked.

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