You mentioned the American Civil War. I always wonder if people from the early years of the 1900s thought of the Civil War like we do of Vietnam. The time frames are practically the same give or take a few years. Its strange to think that someone about the same age as me (34) in 1912 could have had his father fight in the Civil War.
The last living veteran of WWI was Florence Green, a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
whistle blows meaning it's time to run from safety towards a killing field. This wasn't a Cops vs Robbers type shootout, mostly it was certain death just to drain the enemy of bullets or playing the numbers game and the men knew it. The final scenes of the movie Gallipoli shows a good sense of the fear, the reality of knowing that living longer than another 0.1 - 3 seconds was slim to none, the waste of life these charges really were.
It's usually only multiple war vets and special forces typ
men will tell you the fear is what kept them alive and fighting the extra distance. The need for the threats stops being necessary after a while and also in certain situations it's just needed because of the powerful natural psychological survival mechanisms we have.
Imagine the times you've stalled just to prolong receiving a tongue lashing or a spanking, or just not wanting to deal with something competitively silky and minor. Imagine the millions of excuses the mind makes up when a whist
the trench to hide, that's why it's so rarely awarded. Few men recognize it when they perform it.
Desire is never having to do any of these things, that's why there's Canada and a percentage of those H-Deferments.
You're understandably but badly misinterpreting their words and their meaning, I've never heard a real hero call himself a hero no matter how many medals are pinned on his chest. No sane man runs purposefully into swarms of red hot bullets and exploding grenade shrapnel. The same me
My father fought with the 35th Division during WW1 1918 to 1919. He said the trench warfare was aweful, the trench living kill more soldiers than bullets and mustard gas. The plague after the war killed my brother when he was 7 years old.
All WW1 and WW2 videos should have millions of views instead of thousands. every man woman and child should remember exactly what happened so it never happens again no matter the type of warfare weather it is nuclear or non nuclear, People need to stand up to tyrants before they can establish their power.
@ShelfsideYido89 the song is "Just before the Battle Mother" I first heard it 30 odd years ago sung by Austarlian Alex Hood on his album One Hundred Years the connection with the American Civil war, I discovered sometime ago.
Russians always get bad rep for WW1 in particular. Yeah they had terrible time against Germans, but were beating Austrians and Ottomans hand over fist. Against Ottoman Empire in particular: One major offensive succeeded with 7:1 kill/death ratio. Same goes to WW2 BTW. (About bad rep.)
many people forget the first world ware but it was the worst war i think my uncle and grandfather have fight in that war in the belium army they are dead now but the survived that stinky war
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.
There is no glory in war it is a ghastly business, people should recognise that and put an end to it. R.I.P. to all who have died leaving loved ones bereft.
Man,Those Poor Guys Back Then Really Had It Tough As Hell,AND They Were Tough As Nails! These Guys Marched Through Mud,Rain ,Snow And It Was For Kilometers Unending! Sleeping In Mud,Quite Often Not Enough Food,For The Ones Who Gave Their Lives For Freedom,May God Grant Them Eternal Life In Heaven! I seen On some of The old footage,How One soldier Refused to leave his dead Buddy And Carried Him On His Back for long distances! That My Friends Is Heroic In Itself!
Those guys never called themselves heroes. I used to listened to WWI veterans when I was at school in my village and later on TV and all those guys said the same thing : they were scared like hell, had no choice, were often drunk before running into battle and where threaten with death if refusing to execute orders. No heroes there, just victims, this is what they all said. They only remembered disgust, fear and pain. I celebrate their memory this way. Heroes are for war propaganda.
'Bent double like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge... ...Gas! Gas! Quick boys! - an ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling... ...My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.
'We had been brought up to believe that Britain was the best country in the world and we wanted to defend her. The history taught us at school showed that we were better than other people (didn't we always win the last war?) and now all the news was that Germany was the aggressor and we wanted to show the Germans what we could do.'
Private George Morgan, 16th Batt. West Yorkshire Regiment, 1914
Pwned
graybus 4 days ago
Harry Patch was revealed to be a fraud,
niteowlification 2 weeks ago
@niteowlification no he wasn't. you're just jealous ;)
TheHeartOfTheDisease 2 weeks ago
You mentioned the American Civil War. I always wonder if people from the early years of the 1900s thought of the Civil War like we do of Vietnam. The time frames are practically the same give or take a few years. Its strange to think that someone about the same age as me (34) in 1912 could have had his father fight in the Civil War.
Starpilot17 2 weeks ago
The last living veteran of WWI was Florence Green, a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
Adler556 3 weeks ago
When asked for his opinion about the first war Harry Patch said "it wasn't worth it "
Not much more to say is there ?
bowmaker11 4 weeks ago 2
whistle blows meaning it's time to run from safety towards a killing field. This wasn't a Cops vs Robbers type shootout, mostly it was certain death just to drain the enemy of bullets or playing the numbers game and the men knew it. The final scenes of the movie Gallipoli shows a good sense of the fear, the reality of knowing that living longer than another 0.1 - 3 seconds was slim to none, the waste of life these charges really were.
It's usually only multiple war vets and special forces typ
AbsitReverentiaVero 1 month ago
men will tell you the fear is what kept them alive and fighting the extra distance. The need for the threats stops being necessary after a while and also in certain situations it's just needed because of the powerful natural psychological survival mechanisms we have.
Imagine the times you've stalled just to prolong receiving a tongue lashing or a spanking, or just not wanting to deal with something competitively silky and minor. Imagine the millions of excuses the mind makes up when a whist
AbsitReverentiaVero 1 month ago
the trench to hide, that's why it's so rarely awarded. Few men recognize it when they perform it.
Desire is never having to do any of these things, that's why there's Canada and a percentage of those H-Deferments.
You're understandably but badly misinterpreting their words and their meaning, I've never heard a real hero call himself a hero no matter how many medals are pinned on his chest. No sane man runs purposefully into swarms of red hot bullets and exploding grenade shrapnel. The same me
AbsitReverentiaVero 1 month ago
@penestroika
You're confusing Courage and Cowardice, Heroism and Fear aren't opposites, neither is desire for better days a definition of being compelled.
Courage is being afraid of something and doing it anyway, even if your knees are shaking, no, especially if they are. That's why it's courageous.
Heroism is doing those things day after day after day, mile after bloody mile, that's why there are Deserters.
Bravery is stopping that extra 3/4 second to take the shot before jumping into the
AbsitReverentiaVero 1 month ago
My father fought with the 35th Division during WW1 1918 to 1919. He said the trench warfare was aweful, the trench living kill more soldiers than bullets and mustard gas. The plague after the war killed my brother when he was 7 years old.
ATSF1927 1 month ago
@ATSF1927 how could he have been your father? how old are you?
TheHeartOfTheDisease 2 weeks ago
@TheHeartOfTheDisease I was born in 1927, my father was born in 1884.
ATSF1927 2 weeks ago
hard to believe this happened nearly 100 years ago.
gboi96 1 month ago 2
god bless bothe allied forces and the german forces as you all fought because you were patriotic to your country R.I.P
gboi96 1 month ago
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All WW1 and WW2 videos should have millions of views instead of thousands. every man woman and child should remember exactly what happened so it never happens again no matter the type of warfare weather it is nuclear or non nuclear, People need to stand up to tyrants before they can establish their power.
TheMrtinners 1 month ago
one of the worst battles was the somme.
TunguskaProductions 1 month ago
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ShelfsideYido89 1 month ago
@ShelfsideYido89 the song is "Just before the Battle Mother" I first heard it 30 odd years ago sung by Austarlian Alex Hood on his album One Hundred Years the connection with the American Civil war, I discovered sometime ago.
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pusserswar 4 days ago
The music reminds me of Boardwalk Empire.
98bigbutt 2 months ago
Russians always get bad rep for WW1 in particular. Yeah they had terrible time against Germans, but were beating Austrians and Ottomans hand over fist. Against Ottoman Empire in particular: One major offensive succeeded with 7:1 kill/death ratio. Same goes to WW2 BTW. (About bad rep.)
D3adtrap 2 months ago
Not one man hesitated while storming out of the trenches into a hail of machine gun fire....brave men....RIP brothers
MrJt0311 2 months ago
@MrJt0311 that's where you are wrong. Many officers were forced to shoot their own men if they refused to 'go over the top'.
BDFPA 2 months ago
1:23 - that are British soldiers on the first day of the Somme.. they all died 20 minutes after this footage was shot
Overlorddz 3 months ago
@Overlorddz God, thats so awful. What a war.. 5800 killed on the first day right? @ Somme?
MrJDBZ 2 months ago
@MrJDBZ I think it was more like 58,000 on the first day of the Somme
hewey812 1 month ago
@hewey812 60.000 the 1st day and over a million after the 1st month
imthechamp100 1 month ago
many people forget the first world ware but it was the worst war i think my uncle and grandfather have fight in that war in the belium army they are dead now but the survived that stinky war
lennyboy235 3 months ago
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.
Kauwhaka 3 months ago 40
There is no glory in war it is a ghastly business, people should recognise that and put an end to it. R.I.P. to all who have died leaving loved ones bereft.
1davidcampbell 4 months ago 2
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the futility. Poor bastards, both sides.
Sent off to suffer and die by corrupt governments who are still doing it
Never Forget Who Sent Them To Die.
RIP.
sweetypie000 4 months ago
Man,Those Poor Guys Back Then Really Had It Tough As Hell,AND They Were Tough As Nails! These Guys Marched Through Mud,Rain ,Snow And It Was For Kilometers Unending! Sleeping In Mud,Quite Often Not Enough Food,For The Ones Who Gave Their Lives For Freedom,May God Grant Them Eternal Life In Heaven! I seen On some of The old footage,How One soldier Refused to leave his dead Buddy And Carried Him On His Back for long distances! That My Friends Is Heroic In Itself!
kemalmstf 4 months ago 2
@kemalmstf
Those guys never called themselves heroes. I used to listened to WWI veterans when I was at school in my village and later on TV and all those guys said the same thing : they were scared like hell, had no choice, were often drunk before running into battle and where threaten with death if refusing to execute orders. No heroes there, just victims, this is what they all said. They only remembered disgust, fear and pain. I celebrate their memory this way. Heroes are for war propaganda.
penestroika 4 months ago 3
Harogrim 4 months ago 3
'We had been brought up to believe that Britain was the best country in the world and we wanted to defend her. The history taught us at school showed that we were better than other people (didn't we always win the last war?) and now all the news was that Germany was the aggressor and we wanted to show the Germans what we could do.'
Private George Morgan, 16th Batt. West Yorkshire Regiment, 1914
Jasper1997211 4 months ago
Why this has not got 6,8 billion views is beyond me .
pcrvg0808 4 months ago 3
One person found out that Ze Germans lost the war
Hazzadgoing 4 months ago
THANKYOU..... X
Somme1916Somme 5 months ago
If this interests anyone please see my spoken word piece on the Christmas Truce between the Allied and German soldiers on my channel :)
alexgwyther 6 months ago
Thanks for posting the video , this is the only wittness to the first world war .As the ones who were there are no longer around to tell their story
irimikid 11 months ago 3
@irimikid I cried when Harry Patch died,
Jakk325 10 months ago 22
@Jakk325
lol for a second i thought u said harry potter
ThePlacardman 4 months ago
@Jakk325 its all that dead for the normal people. the rich stayd out off that shit.
josje73 3 months ago