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I am remembering today. We speak of 'war crimes' today, but what of the many many 1000's of men sent 'over the top' repeatedly to suffer almost certain death or maiming? For what, a few feet of territory, often lost just as quickly? I feel nothing but digust for those who perpetrated such an abomination.
My grandfather who fought in the trenches and elsewhere for over two years, a machine gunner. He came home, but paid with his health and in his later years, his sanity. He was unable to get over the suicides in the trenches. No one mentions them, but I often think of those boys.
@katymatey* wrote:I am remembering today. We speak of 'war crimes' today, but what of the many many 1000's of men sent 'over the top' repeatedly to suffer almost certain death or maiming? For what, a few feet of territory, often lost just as quickly? I feel nothing but digust for those who perpetrated such an abomination.
My grandfather who fought in the trenches and elsewhere for over two years, a machine gunner. He came home, but paid with his health and in his later years, his sanity. He was unable to get over the suicides in the trenches. No one mentions them, but I often think of those boys.
No one ever mentions suicides in the trenches.Never heard of it but do not doubt it.They used to execute "cowards" by firing squad.
I always believed that no one had the right to call a man a COWARD unless they were there with that man and saw what happened and endured it.I doubt very few were cowards if any at all.More likely they were pushed beyond breaking point by the real cowards,i.e the generals and politicians who sent them to do things that no one ought to have been forced to endure.
