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This video was SO interesting...I thought I'd share it here (my apologies if its been posted before). It talks a lot about WWII, but also conflicts before and after...military and civilian deaths. When its put into scale like this, the deaths are staggering!
The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.
interesting video... I guess we lost 6 soldiers in the Greek Civil War... can't believe they have stats like this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
It causes me to think of other things like how governments can send their people into sure slaughter. It's part of the reason why I hate government.
An interesting thought is: what would the world look like now if somebody had slit Hitler's throat in 1936?
The Shop
Too bad a German who saw what was coming wasn't able to do something about it.
my grandads fought to save our country from invasion..yes when the shit hits the fan stand up and protect your own! Not takeover foreign soil for oil.
Look at ISIS, they love to make war, its there whole reason for being.
To this day Chamberlain is still derided for his policy of appeasement but the truth is that Britain was in no position to fight Germany before it did and to do so would have spelt defeat in as short a time span as France. Putting off conflict for a couple of years gave Britain a chance to update it's armaments and increase it's capabilities.
P.s. We've only just finished repaying the U.S. for the 'help' in the first war and are continuing to pay for the second.
Pit Row
Something to think about is that it might have been the nuclear age that put an end to these world wide slaughters.
But, I guess if we all just got along fine and dandy we could be stacked on top of one another and being singing Christmas songs and drinking lattes till Christ, Budha, Mahumed and Jeff Smith came back to collect us all for the eternal scolding of our sins
--Al Pacino as The Devil, "Devil's Advocate"
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