World War I deaths - in memory of the slain

[Jasper8372]

RIP boys.These are real men!!!

[360LEELUKE]

all those poor broken men, god rest their souls

[Valou415]

Dans les plaines de Flandre, les coquelicots Sont parsemés de lot en lot Auprès des croix et dans l'espace Les alouettes devenues lasses Mêlent leurs chants au sifflement Des obusiers. Nous sommes morts, Nous qui songions la veille encor' À nos parents, à nos amis, C'est nous qui reposons ici, Dans les plaines de Flandre.

[strangeandstranger1]

Unbelievable horror. Mankind is a pestilence, a disease upon this earth. Always have been, always will be. Death & destruction. I have a nickel on Satan.

[Kauwhaka]

Two years ago, Harry Patch died. He was the last infantry solider alive that had fought in the trenches and mud of WWI. Earlier this year, Claude Stanley Choules of the Australian navy died. The last known man to have been in active service.

Since it started in England in 1919, this will be the FIRST ever Remembrance day that has NO surviving WWI veterans still alive anywhere. Of all the millions who put on a uniform and went to that war almost 100 years ago, the last one has finally fallen.

[Jasper1997211]

'Only the dead have seen the end of war.'

[icepincess]

WWI was grown men acting like spoilt rotten children. The Triple Alliance was just waiting on an excuse to start a war and they got it when Archduke Ferdinand got assainated. Austria didn`t even care about him but hey he was their heir and a good excuse to bully serbia. Germany took that opportunity to attack france like the dicks they were, and everyone got dragged in.. germany were the dicks of the 20th century.. they left their descedndant with a shameful history

[pongboy1100]

I know this isn't the right moment but at 1:14 i can't stop thinking of those 2 skulls where one would say: and how long have you bin here? other: Och mund halten!

[broyalwithcheese]

they were proud men before their time would end

[DreadedPantherTank]

Remember today. 11th month of the 11th day of the 11th hour 1918. The end of World War I. An almost forgotten war. Let us not forget. Please say a prayer for all those souls from the Great War.

[32780tit]

@DreadedPantherTank Amen

[Greenhornet270]

I am a Vietnam Vet; WHEN will we LEARN; wars DONT work?

[callsignshirtman]

@Greenhornet270

Depends on how you define "work". If you mean, solving all problems, no wars don't work.

But that doesn't mean some wars won't be necessary

[strathpipe]

This is insanity we must all be a bit insane and guilty. Two things we can be certain off in this life One we all die Two common sense will Not prevail.

[falinthos]

Farewell life, farewell love, Farewell all women. It's all over, it's forever, That infamous war. It Craonne on the shelf, That must leave because his skin we are all doomed We are the sacrifice

[KarisDorgHistory]

my great grandfather only just survived all of this !

its sad seeing all who died :(

[SkateTillHeaven]

war now is just about the most superior technology , we are no longer fighting for rights , we are making our own means to engage in war . countries leave other countries alone and mind their own business and there wont be a need for meaningless slaughter.

[annkus3]

And even today, MEN still have not learnt............sad world.....

[ele90]

:30 why would anyone ever do that?

[culturalgoods020]

In my experience the "lazy scroungers" tend to be the indiginous population who think the world owes them a living and sadly have no respect for their forebears' achievements.

Their lack of preparedness to work long hours for relatively low pay (admittedly combined with a strange approach to immigration policy which prefers Slovaks who do not speak English over Aussies who do) is what has sucked in many overseas workers to the UK>

[helmandtigers]

They gave so much for a world now that is shit

[khalithistle]

it is frankly insulting to anyone who fought in the great war that you fail to appreciate just how lucky you are to live in 2010 rather than 1910. if nothing else, be thankful that ww1 at least was the end of vast empires sending wave after wave of disposable conscripts to be mown down in ground wars of mass attrition.

and they didnt "give so much". they weren't brave. they were just ordinary young men who were sent out to die for no real reason. THAT is the POINT.

[helmandtigers]

@khalithistle My grandfather didnt fight in flanders for the wave of foreign scrounging work shy scum that now inhabit my proud and glorious country thanks to the labour goverment and the european human rights bill, THAT IS MY POINT BOY!

[khalithistle]

your grandfather fought in flanders because he was told to

[culturalgoods020]

Most of the comments below seem to be under the impression that the Great War came about at random. It came about because a newly unified Germany under a belligerent Kaiser wanted to realise the potential for "greatness" that it felt was its destiny. It was the most advanced nation in the world, with a strong industrial base, and certainly far better organised than the British or Americans. In my opinion the Austro-Hungarian business drawing Germany into war was the detail, not its main thrust.

[vaughandrummer]

you missed out that to start a war will put a hell of a lot of money in EITHER SIDES bank accounts...

[rsoomer]

@culturalgoods020 I'm a tad bit late with my comment, but I wanted to let you know that youre comment was the only one I think that was close to reality. The only thing I part with is the idea that Germany is to blame because Wilhem II wanted to show some muscle. The whole of Europe wanted a war. All countries steered towards an armed conflict. Nationalism had a lot to do with that.

[Filterlithium]

first austria-hungery vs serbia, then russia to help serbia-then germany to help A-H,then france to help R,S then engand and the rest joined to get a piece of the pie for there own good

[ele90]

God bless the 20 million lives that were lost is this pointless conflict.

[Soccermaster54]

I forgot why World War I was started. Someone tell me. I know World War II was started by the Nazis holding people hostage. Tell me about the first one.

[somekindofmonster4]

franz ferdinand (Austrian dude) was assasinated by a serb. austria/hungary wanted to take action against the serbs, but other countries threatened to take action on austria/hungary if they started war with the serbs. they took action anyway and everybody ended up getting involved one way or another. thats what started WWI

[FirelordPedro]

ww1 started with the assasination by a serbian nationalist, in bosnia on the 28th of june 1914, at about 11:30 am. His uncle Joesef ferdinand the emperor of austria-hungary. as a result of this and pervious losses of territroy along the balkan shorline, and with the constant assurance of german support in the event of war, as well as with rising tensions bewtween the great powers, and the eventual rejection of the sent ultamatum war was inevitable leading russia to enter, britian, etc

[battfinkz]

world war 2 was started by hitler invading poland because he made up some bullshit excuse to just go in and claim land back that he thought was rightfully germany's

[nojokenygren]

@battfinkz He wanted, and thought Germany needed "Living Space".

[Maverick5588]

ur kidding right....?

[uberhalla]

What's the name of this song? Heard it in "Platoon"

[snoopy3600]

adagio for a string

[M55q]

WWI = Meaningless slaughter...

[Tharrild]

I couldn't agree more.

Lest We Forget,

May their memory live on forever

[OoKensaioO]

War is evil ! Peace forever !

[milemead]

but who gets rembered as heros the generals who dont give there life like the soilders.

[Weso98p]

all of the people who die you will live in are hearts

[ziradith]

I bet wars would be few and far between if our fearless leaders had to fight in the frontlines. <_<

[Wehategod]

My Families were in this war and they fought for Austro-Hungary and Russia. To all those who lost a loved one may they RIP. Also to great Uncle Abraham Gombiner may you live on in our hearts. He was killed along with millions on the eastern front

[Scotty7617]

So terrible. World War I was a completely unnecessary war. So much death and destruction and misery for absolutely nothing.

[doyler31]

well actually World War One was not completely for nothing. It stopped the emperical empires of Germany, Austro-Hungary and to some extent Russia. This as well as the 100 year old treaty Britain had with Belgium meant that it was not unnecessary. It was more necessary than Iraq or Afghanistan

[Scotty7617]

It was that treaty that was actually part of the problem. The war was started by largely by the alliance system.

Germany violated Belgium's treaty by invading Belgium, which they had done to go to war with France, which they had only done due to France's alliance with Russia, and Germany's alliance with Austria-Hungary.

[Caracalla23]

If WWI hadn't been fought (or lost) then an undemocratic and triumphalist Germany would have dominated MY continent and would have become even more of a threat to MY country. Don't forget it was Germany who invaded Britains ally Belgium to attack the French (another ally). Did we have any choice but to declare war? Britains foreign policy for centuies had been to stop any one country dominating the continent.

[Scotty7617]

Actually, WWI was a war with no purpose. Because of the alliance system in Europe, a small issue between Austria-Hungary and Serbia dragged the whole continent into war needlessly. The alliance system was why Germany went to war with France needlessly andinvaded Belgium needlessly.

Plus, it was the victorious nations' actions after WWI that led to the rise of Nazi Germany and WWII.

[broekaftettenbluut]

poppies are flowers that grow on 'disturbed' soil. the coinstant shelling repeatedly plowed the soil, thus poppies popped up everywhere. poppies are red flowers who collapse when you touch them, fragile flowers in a devastated landscape....

[naderakil]

this is the  same ... israel do this to libanon ... the history naver change.

[Caracalla23]

Comparing what happened to Lebanon in 2006 and what happened in WWI is nonesense.

[HDbiikerchick]

"remembrance."

[carefuleugene12]

are you dumb.....sorry

[hazzo18]

Skip to 2:01 and it shows millions of poppies in a field.

[Robfoxman]

i bow my head

[wolfe63]

Well done!

[Murikov]

impressive! look also my ww1 video!!

[stickmanpig]

how brave were they?how lucky we are not to have faced it.well done

[misterplay91670]

it's the firts verse of "la chanson de Craonne", right by an unknown french soldier

[misterplay91670]

Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour,

Adieu toutes les femmes.

C'est bien fini, c'est pour toujours,

De cette guerre infâme.

C'est à Craonne, sur le plateau,

Qu'on doit laisser sa peau

Car nous sommes tous condamnés

C'est nous les sacrifiés !

[jagorev]

beautiful poem. Thank you for posting.

[Murikov]

awesome vid! Look also my ww1 video!!

[uoxinto]

What's the name of the music?

[jagorev]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

[uoxinto]

Thank you very much!!!

[Donknallert]

And 20 years later they did it again...

[Schweinewitz]

This brought tears to my eyes... May all those souls rest in peace.

[JohnnyH1982]

Great video mate, keep up the good work

[creamofcardstv]

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