THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news
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When this war is over everything is going to be alright! The downtrodden proletariat, which hadn't become a byword for Communists yet, will lead the parade and the masters of evil will will be subjugated! A little wishful thinking couldn't hurt anything... could it? Meanwhile, elsewhere, William Randolph Hurst the newspaper publishing czar, was being pilloried for being a dupe of Imperial Germany and anti American.
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The cartoon brings to mind the famous Bill Mauldin cartoon....
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The cartoon brings to mind the famous Bill Mauldin cartoon....
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A soldier wrote his Clio Michigan newspaper to tell about Army life in camp at Soo Michigan up on the Canadian border.
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In the news.....the crew of the famous German privateer SMS Seeadler , after an unfortunate mishap of grounding, commandeered a French ship that was later run aground as well. The famous raider was American to start with and stopped on the high seas by the British who planned to intern it and investigate the ownership further to the consternation of the American captain. However on the way to internment, under a British flag, the ship was captured by the Germans with help from the American captain who locked the British prize crew below decks......probably because he resented having his ship hijacked. The Germans released the Americans to a neutral country in gratitude and imprisoned the British prize crew. When I was a kid I had a kit model of it.
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But the newspaper account gets a little garbled. For one thing they call the raider the Sea leader. Seeadler means Sea Eagle....and you will note this raider was really a sailing ship with a motor... a lot like the Alabama in the Civil War. Von Luckner, the captain, was famous after the war and wrote his history of the voyage.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Seeadler_(1888)
But the newspaper account gets a little garbled. For one thing they call the raider the Sea leader. Seeadler means Sea Eagle....and you will note this raider was really a sailing ship with a motor... a lot like the Alabama in the Civil War. Von Luckner, the captain, was famous after the war and wrote his history of the voyage.
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Now here is an idea that the local doctors that weren't going to war must have winced over.
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Man gets 20 years in the pen for running his mouth against the war. The clincher was that he maintained that the American doughboys would be better at spreading syphilis among American Women than terrifying Germans. It didn't help that he had allegedly deserted from the British Army either.
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John Bull is really smashing the Kaiser's army flat at Verdun. .....so says the cartoon in an American newspaper. Meanwhile... at the other end of the line ...the hammer....at Ypres.... it's a blood bath with mostly Australians, at the moment, getting into serious body counts as both sides attack and counter attack.
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British troops did not fight at Verdun .............
Australian troops fought in the 3rd Battle only..........
Australian troops fought in the 3rd Battle only..........
Duncan
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
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No Americans had done any fighting just yet...but Goodwin's Weekly... "a thinking paper for thinking people" was doing a little thinking about how wonderful war was when God is on your side.
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Written by a person that has obviously never been in combat. Any combat veteran knows that
all the "glory" shit goes out the window when the first shot is fired.
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all the "glory" shit goes out the window when the first shot is fired.
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Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.