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WW1 - still with us

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Yahoo / AFP • Wed 2018 Oct 10, 1:49pm

Black and white silent film footage from World War I has been transformed by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson into a 3D colour movie to mark the centenary of the end of the conflict.…
painstakingly restored and coloured hours of archival footage and paired it with historical veterans' interviews… included using lip readers to decipher what soldiers were saying in the century-old film and inserting new matching audio recorded with actors.

…"They Shall Not Grow Old" -- will be unveiled for the first time at the London Film Festival next week…

Henry Samuel, Telegraph (UK) • Fri 2016 Jul 1, 6:02pm

It will take another five centuries to clear the Somme battlefields before the area is safe, bomb disposal experts warned on Thursday after collecting 25 tons of munitions this year alone.… ‘We find all kinds of devices. The biggest to date was an eight hundred kilo, 15in British bomb at Thiepval… All the towns around here have been built on ground teeming with bombs.…"

CDR Salamander • Fri 2016 Jul 1, 1:55pm

[Churchill:] …..it was at Somme, the hinge of popular opinion on the nature of war changed and forever altered our perceptions of war.…

Dan Hannan, Wash Examiner • Wed 2016 Jun 8, 11:18am

"Somme," wrote a Prussian veteran afterwards. "The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word." The first day remains, by some measure, the worst in the history of the British Army: An almost unbelievable 19,200 men were killed.…

In the five months that followed, 400,000 British and Allied troops, and a similar number of Germans, lost their lives, without any noticeable gain or loss of territory.…

K. Querry, KFOR-TV • Thu 2016 May 5, 2:53pm

LAWTON, Okla. – An Oklahoma homeowner… found a “bomb” while mowing his backyard. …a large shell that was about one foot long.… investigators from Ft. Sill… believe it is a World War I 75 MM explosive ordnance.…

BBC News • Fri 2016 Jan 22, 6:04am

The wreck of a World War One German U-boat has been found… lying about 55 miles (90km) east of Caister-on-Sea. U-31 went missing in January 1915, struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. All 35 men on board died. …As an official military maritime grave, the wreck of U-31 will remain in its final resting place.…

David Stockman, Contra Corner • Wed 2016 Jan 13, 7:39pm

My humble thesis tonight is that the entire 20th Century was a giant mistake.

And that you can put the blame for this monumental error squarely on Thomas Woodrow Wilson — a megalomaniacal madman who was the very worst President in American history… well, except for the last two.

His unforgiveable error was to put the United States into the Great War for utterly no good reason of national interest. …

Sweeping overview of the consequences, miliarily, politically, and economically.
tulsaworld.com • Sat 2011 Mar 5, 10:00pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are seeking Pentagon permission for holding ceremonies in the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, where Buckles will be buried. Talks were still going on in the Senate about a resolution, offered by West Virginia's two Democratic senators, to approve use of the Rotunda to honor Buckles, but the indecision was frustrating Buckles' family. "The leadership of Congress is standing in the way" of a Rotunda ceremony, said David DeJonge, Buckles' biographer and the family spokesman. "We want the highest level of respect for all that Frank Buckles stands for," he said. "It's not about Frank, it is about the passing of a generation." Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the author of a House resolution approving a Rotunda ceremony, still would have that as her first choice, said her spokeswoman.