John Sedgwick wrote: the regular German army hated the Waffen S.S. too!
John Sedgwick wrote:Next Friday is Remembrance Day, so I thought I'd start a thread for people to share their thoughts and honour those who fell, and those who lived to tell the tale - lest we forget.
AGEod's operational wargames have provided me with many hours of enjoyment, but every now and then, my thoughts turn to the dreadful events on which they are based, and think: there but for the grace of God go I. The reality of war is an intense physical and psychological trauma that kills, maims, and wounds indiscriminately, leaving its surviving victims scarred for life...
John Sedgwick wrote:Next Friday is Remembrance Day, so I thought I'd start a thread for people to share their thoughts and honour those who fell, and those who lived to tell the tale - lest we forget.
AGEod's operational wargames have provided me with many hours of enjoyment, but every now and then, my thoughts turn to the dreadful events on which they are based, and think: there but for the grace of God go I. The reality of war is an intense physical and psychological trauma that kills, maims, and wounds indiscriminately, leaving its surviving victims scarred for life.
A few months back, I wrote a song with the intention of performing it for Remembrance Day ceremonies, which I will be doing next week at the local public school. I had a number of things in mind when I wrote it: Canada's last WW1 veteran died in February of 2010, which led me to wonder if I'd live to see the last WW2 veteran pass away; I pondered the concept of a "Just War," whether something so evil could ever be good, and concluded that WW2 came closest to meeting that criterion in recent memory; I thought about veterans being reunited in heaven, and wondered what they would say to each other; I wanted to address the phenomenon of survivor's guilt, to talk tactfully about things veteran never talk about, either out of humility, or because the memories are too painful, or because they are no longer with us; most of all, I wanted to show the kids a fictional glimpse into the mind of my imagined veteran - that behind the medals they carry on their chests, lie hearts carrying memories of a burden they bore in the hopes that their children's children would never have to experience war again.
So without further ado, I'd like to share it with all. It's called Billy, or, Things I'll Never Speak Of...
John Sedgwick wrote:The Nazis were certainly masters of the divide and conquer strategy when it came to their political opponents - how tragically ironic that they put some of them to work doing their conquering.
Like allways as poor people go in the Army to please the richers, and go killing other poor people and invade their country for resources.
Often army soldiers hate politics who send them to bring chaos.
About Nazis, they would have been in oblivion and nothingness if they were not first paid by english bankers and heavy german industry. Other german parties were not so heavily financed, as always money makes 'democratic' politics.
Aphrodite Mae wrote:John, you've created one of the most substantive threads that I can remember ever reading, on these forums.
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