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World War 1. 100 years ago right now

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German U-boat sinks an American oil tanker that was destined for the  Netherlands.

Germany obviously doesn't give a flying  sh*t anymore!

Germany knows the US Army is small and  sux, and it will take about a year for them to be in the trenches in force. But they think they can win by then.

 

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0CEEDC143AE433A25750C2A9659C946696D6CF

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9 hours ago, thelawlorfaithful said:

Lester, you're obviously heavily into this part of history. Why don't you give us your views on things about these subjects once in awhile? 

ok, my point about this thread is that if you look at history on a daily level.... what happened then can be seen as happening right now in our world.

Only the weapons are different.

People back then are  like people now.

Delusional, sometimes dumb,  stubborn, sometimes greedy, angry, and scared.

Governments use the same tactics now as back them. Only the technology is different.

Back then all the people  had was 2 editions of the daily newspaper to read. (if they lived in a big city).

There were no radio broadcasts yet. But they were only a few years away.

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ex President Taft....

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In the German Reichstag, socialist (SPD) deputy Fritz Kunert blames Kaiser Wilhelm and Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg for starting the war and says he’d be proud if Germany made such progress as Russia has.

The US rejects Germany’s proposed protocols interpreting the 1799 and 1828 US-Prussia treaties in ways that would allow all German nationals in the US (well over a million of them) to go about their business with no restrictions in the event of a war.

If war is declared, Princeton will immediately suspend all athletics. But they probably won’t shut down the whole university for the duration (or let in women).

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a Military park in Eastern France. I'd like to visit one of these before I kick it.-------

" Fort Vaux, located in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was built from 1881–1884 at a cost of 1,500,000 Francs, to house 150 men.

It became the second Fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun after Fort Douaumont which was virtually undefended and had been captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916.

Fort de Vaux, was garrisoned when it was attacked on June 2 by German assault troops
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"Not our fault US homies" - German Chancellor

 

German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg tells the Reichstag that Germany does not want war with the United States.

He says that if Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare – which was adopted entirely in self-defense – leads the US to declare war,

“if this action warrants an increase of bloodshed, we shall not have to bear the burden of responsibility for it.”

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The Lochnagar Crater Memorial was purchased by Richard Dunning MBE on July 1st 1978. If you would like to know more about how Richard came to own the Crater please click on this link. It is supported by the superb Friends of Lochnagar who give generously of their time, effort and money to help maintain it.

 

The largest crater ever made by man in anger is now a unique memorial to all those who suffered in the Great War. It is dedicated to peace, fellowship and reconciliation between all nations who fought on the Western Front.
No profit has, nor ever will be made from Lochnagar.
 
THE FRIENDS OF LOCHNAGAR GREATLY APPRECIATE THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE
HISTORIAL DE LA GRANDE GUERRE, PERONNE
IN THE MAINTENANCE OF THE LOCHNAGAR CRATER.
The Lochnagar mine was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War and ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme

 

 

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The mines were laid without interference by German miners but as the explosives were placed, German miners could be heard below Lochnagar and above the Y Sap mine.

Captain Stanley Bullock described the conditions of the work:

At one place in particular our men swore they thought he [the German enemy] was coming through, so we stopped driving forward and commenced to chamber in double shifts. We did not expect to complete it before he blew, but we did. A chamber 12′ x 6′ x 6′ in 24 hours. The Germans worked for a shift more than we did and then stopped. They knew we had chambered and were afraid we should blow and no more work was done there. I used to hate going to listen in that chamber more than any other place in the mine. Half an hour, sometimes once sometimes three times a day, in deadly silence with the geophone to your ears, wondering whether the sound you heard was the Boche working silently or your own heart beating. God knows how we kept our nerves and judgement. After the Somme attack when we surveyed the German mines and connected up to our own system, with the theodolite we found that we were 5 feet apart, and that he had only started his chamber and then stopped. — Captain Stanley Bullock, 179th Tunnelling Company

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The blowing of the Y Sap and Lochnagar mines was witnessed by pilots who were flying over the battlefield to report back on British troop movements.

It had been arranged that continuous overlapping patrols would fly throughout the day. 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Lewis' patrol of 3 Squadron was warned against flying too close to La Boisselle, where two mines were due to go up, but would be able to watch from a safe distance. Flying up and down the line in a Morane Parasol, he watched from above Thiepval, almost two miles from La Boisselle, and later described the early morning scene in his book Sagittarius Rising (1936):

We were over Thiepval and turned south to watch the mines. As we sailed down above all, came the final moment. Zero! At Boisselle the earth heaved and flashed, a tremendous and magnificent column rose up into the sky. There was an ear-splitting roar, drowning all the guns, flinging the machine sideways in the repercussing air. The earthly column rose, higher and higher to almost four thousand feet. There it hung, or seemed to hang, for a moment in the air, like a silhouette of some great cypress tree, then fell away in a widening cone of dust and debris. A moment later came the second mine. Again the roar, the upflung machine, the strange gaunt silhouette invading the sky. Then the dust cleared and we saw the two white eyes of the craters. The barrage had lifted to the second-line trenches, the infantry were over the top, the attack had begun.

— Cecil Lewis, whose aircraft was hit by lumps of mud thrown up by the explosion

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it won't be long..........WAR!

 

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and also Drivers licenses--

 

The New York Legislature will make another attempt to require driving licenses for operators of motor vehicles in New York City.

There won’t be a driving test or anything like that, but those convicted of reckless driving can have their license revoked.

 

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Woodrow Wilson addresses Congress.

He twice calls them “gentlemen of the Congress.” Dude, Representative Rankin is sitting right there.

The bulk of his justification for going to war is based on submarine warfare. The Zimmermann telegram gets a single sentence, and of course there’s the “make the world safe for democracy” thing, but mostly it’s about making war to vindicate the United States’s god-given right to sell stuff, including munitions, to one side in a war. “The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind.” Interestingly, he doesn’t mention the Lusitania.

He expresses surprise that Germany actually meant to implement unrestricted submarine warfare when it said it was going to implement unrestricted submarine warfare: “I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations.” He explains how his previous idea for responding to this, putting guns and Navy gunners on commercial ships, proved insufficient:

But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines are in effect outlaws when used as the German submarines have been used against merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ships against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon the open sea. It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all.

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But there’s good news for Germans: “We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war.” But we will have to kill quite a few of them. #SorryNotSorry.

There’s a sentence in the address I can’t for the life of me figure out: “Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest.”

 

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