= Сообщение: 11038 из 12491 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Dmitry Protasoff 2:5001/100.1 16 Nov 21 00:00:14 Кому : David Rance 16 Nov 21 00:00:14 Тема : The richest people on this planet FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:5001/100.1+6192cf75 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+6192a11a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== *** Answering a msg posted in area carbonArea (Carbon Area).
Hello, David!
Monday November 15 2021 19:04, you wrote to me:
DR> My Uncle Harry died in the trenches in July 1916. All my mother would DR> tell me was that he was (and I quote) "blown to pieces". That wasn't DR> quite true. I found out later that a German shell landed in his trench DR> and he died about five days later of shrapnel wounds.
I am sure that there were a lot similar casualties during Napoleonic wars or during other wars in Europe. It makes no sense know all details about each war for average guy from new generations.
DP>> Why do you think they need to know anything WW1 in details?
DR> That is why.
DR> If, as the generations go by, we lose a sense of the horror of war and DR> what it does for tens of years afterwards, then we are likely to allow DR> it all to happen again. I wasn't born at the time of WW1 but my family DR> and I have lived in the shadow of it.
You can watch any current war almost in real time while sitting at home. With deaths, blood and a lot of "happening again" just this evening. Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, etc. You can even visit those countries and see everything yourself.
WW2 happened when almost everyone knew enough about WW1, with exact dates and a lot war veterans around. So they allowed it to happen again, with even more terrible consequences. And people who knew enough about WW2 started Yugoslav Wars. It was required to know a lot about WW2 in schools of Yugoslavia and they had a lot of movies, books, memoirs about it. Not helped at all.
Best regards, dp.
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