Battle of the somme anniversary
 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36674451

100th anniversary tomorrow.
It is amazing to me, when i look at the western front at the beginning and end of the war, how little it moved in all that time. So many lives lost, in a battle for empire. Every country that had a monarchy at the start lost it by wars' end, except britain. And of course the end of the ottoman empire, and borders haphazardly drawn to replace it.

WW1 was a brutal war and that battle was costly for all.

The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest battles of World War I. The original Allied estimate of casualties on the Somme, made at the Chantilly Conference on 15 November 1916, was 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German....and a lot of horses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...mme#Casualties

Amazing to me that of all technology, it seems the killing kind is more important to some than tech that helps all of us.
The war began with cavalry, ended with tanks.
We went to charleston, saw the hunley among other things. Couple months later i was in kansas city, at the ww1 museum. 50 years after the civil war with cannon and muskets, and there are uboats, tanks and some hellacious artillery. From ballons for observation to the red baron. There was a renault tank...rhe armor was laughably thin.

Just Watched A Good WW2 Movie.

When Trumpets Fade.

Just ordered at Neflix...don't remember seeing this one..