The war to end all wars
Taking some time out this morning to w atch remembrance day for the first world war . Although my country was neutral during the war it has always interrested me. I t helps that I studied military history for a while. I h ave been in Verdun and to the fields in Flanders, the Menenpoort in Ieper with all the english names on the walls. It makes you pauze and think. A war to end all wars, and not 25 years later an even bigger, more horrible war errupted all over Europe and that time we did not manage to keep our neutrality. But for soldiers? I am not sure which one was worse. The second war was horrible for everyone, also civilians. In WW I civilians mostly suffered if they lived on or near battlefields but those soldiers. Image 4 years in those trenches, fighting for every centimeter. Dying for a piece of land and not seein g much difference. It was the war that first acknowlegde shell shock and was therefor important in psychiatry. If you ever want to read good books about that I rec...