The trenches killed the best men

@Fritz_Imperial The First World War was just the worst war ever in terms of the damage inflicted on soldiers, especially considering the lives lost per mile gained, particularly in the western front but even in the eastern front the numbers are just staggering.

@LoLMoura1 20,000 dead in one day at the Somme.

@Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 France never demographically recovered from this. 1.5 milion dead. Every single french family has a relative that has fallen in this war.

@EstragonSan @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 It is comprehendible to Americans, but only the ones whose family’s were here for the civil war. We had similar population losses in that.

@saberjet @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 Civil wars are different in the sense that there is no actual "invader". The collective memory of the war is very different from south to north, while all French people share the same trauma. But most importantly : we remember men who've been in the trenches. We met them.

@EstragonSan @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 We were invaded in 1942 although nowhere near to the extent of 1812. We had men in the trenches, too. Over the course of a year and seven months, we lost over 116,000 men. Idk what makes you think Americans can’t understand the cost of war, but we didn’t walk away clean.

@cognizantcoffee @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 I am not talking about the cost of war, I am talking about seeing huge parts of your homeland invaded and having all your fathers, brothers and sons go literally a few miles up north to die and protect the fatherland and their families. Pearl Harbour was not like this.

@EstragonSan @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 I think Italy is quite similar.

@SebastianoPeot1 @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 I admit I am not quite familiar with the Italo-Austro/Hungarian front. Did a most of the fighting occur on Italian soil ?

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@EstragonSan @Fritz_Imperial @LoLMoura1 Actually much more than 36000. You have inscriptions and commemorative plates in every parish, in companies and schools....