World War I: Battle Of Passchendaele 3/4

On the Western Front in 1917, the British fought alone for three-and-a-half months during one of the wettest summers Flanders has ever seen.

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[karlkarlkarl1234]

Everyone should Google image the aerial photos of Passchendaele before & after the battle.

Those two images explain it all.

[Weston1968]

How the fuck did Men allow this to ever happen? This is an image of Hell on Earth if ever there was one!

[MrMedicinebox]

@Weston1968 Older men have been sending younger men to war for thousands of years - the Greeks and Romans, Germans and now the US have attempted to conquer the world and in the process people die.

[SiliconBong]

Men didn't allow this to happen, Weston1968, Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Happy New Year !

[myth1032]

I love the song 'waltzing matlida'

[Andiish08]

When you look at a aerial photo of the village after the battle, you could easily believe that you look at a photo of the moon. Terrible.

[MorganScorpion]

I have never heard the poetry of Wilfred Owen read so beautifully before. My favourite war poet.

[fredrunlikehell]

@chris0dante I think of yes. You have good sens of observaton !!!

[Pawluk44]

Go Australians :)

[Mu51ch3r3]

@chris0dante I believe so, its not there anymore, good observation.

[Sm1thy68]

lest we forget.

[chris0dante]

At 2:53 did that gun explode?

[rocksonice3333]

"a forlorn expenditure of valour and life without equal in futility"

---Sir Winston Churchill on the battle of Passchendale

rest in peace comrades....we keep watch