TheAuldGrump wrote:
Ahtman wrote:While much of what was said above is true there is also that it was a much more static and depressing war. We see the introduction of chemical weapons and machine guns on the battlefield that just completely destroyed the ideals of an "honorable war". Throw in these new things called tanks and aeroplanes and you end up with men in positions like Mad Doc Grotskik said. It was such a bloody, draining, and plodding conflict that people at the time couldn't imagine humans ever wanting to go to war again thus the "War to end all Wars" moniker.
Of course that didn't work out.
It is obliviously more complicated but it is remembered and studied but it is more of a shadow hanging over the period than being seen as a more binary story that is often told of WWII with good vs. evil.
And let us not forget the submarine -
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson wrote:"Submarines are underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and that personnel should be hanged as pirates.
With the result that
British submarines still carry Jolly Rogers.
The Auld Grump - I learned that from Tom Lewis, British submariner and folk musician.
That's interesting, and kinda of good the tradition carried on.
British armed services have many, and should be remembered.
