And then there was WW I facts. A whole lot more horrific across the board.

About 220 American soldiers a day...

In Europe, about 5,000 civilians and 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers a day, for six years. Russia, 8,000 to 10,000 a day between soldiers and civilians. China, 5,000 to 6,000 a day.

That's 20,000 to 25,000 people killed everyday, not counting the millions who died of various illnesses, cold, or hunger.

And these were not dying in a land far, far away, they were dying all around everyone. All 60 to 80 millions of them, give or take ten millions because nobody really knows...

That's more than half of the entire US and Canada population of the day. Half of everybody, kids, old people, pregnant women, little girls, babies, grannies, teenagers.

You'll never be grateful enough to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, who kept you out of the real ugliness as a nation - save for the troops. The collective psyche in Europe, Russia and other places is marked by the two World Wars in a way that a US citizen grown at home cannot really comprehend.

We understand more than you think. That is why we try so hard to keep all the fighting over there......

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Originally posted by Opus1:
And then there was WW I facts. A whole lot more horrific across the board.

Absolutely, a lot of what can only be described as pointless slaughter.

Grizz

The United States is well apparent of what it means to lose lives in war.

Even the millenial generation has a big section of Arlington full of fresh graves.

If we lose 10,000 people fighting in sand box, that is half a million we didn't lose here, if not more.

Besides that the last WW1 survivor has been buried for over 10 years. The memories aren't that fresh.