re: #273 Ziggy_TARDIS

I think it was brutal even by most standards before the war.

France was drained after WWI. They lost a ghastly number of the young men, and I remember seeing a picture some memorial to those lost in war from a Military academy by Year of Graduation. One entire year was completely gone.

France had no fight left after WWI. I don’t blame them.

There’s talk in WWI about whole villages being wiped of their men of a certain age. We have never had really anything comparable to that in our wars. Maybe the Civil War perhaps. I don’t judge the Europeans for being dovish in general. Americans who do are assholes in my book.