UK: Remembrance Day in UK/Canada

Submitted by fathers4fairness on Wed, 2014-11-12 16:52

Nov. 11 was Remembrance Day in the UK and Canada and a tremendous art installation of 888,246 ceramic red poppies was launched in the moat of the Tower of London to honour those who sacrificed themselves in WWI - as 2014 marks the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of that conflict. [In French, known as "La Guerre Mondiale".]

It was an amazing visual display. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Swept_Lands_and_Seas_of_Red

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Mind-boggling to me that there are recent high school grads here in the US who were never even taught about WWI, or if they were, it was brushed past to move onto more 'recent' events. Thank God for Wikipedia; where the public schools fail, Wikipedia succeeds. For those recently poorly-served by their schools, prepare to be shocked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Duration: July 1914 - Nov. 1918

Parties:

  • Allies: UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Australia, India, S. Africa, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Russia, Japan, Italy, Greece, etc., etc.
  • Central: Germany, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, etc.

Casualties:

  • Allies: KIA or died in theater: 5,525,000; MIA (as good as dead): 4,121,000; WIA or injured in theater: 12,831,500
  • Central: KIA or died in theater: 4,386,000; MIA (as good as dead): 3,629,000; WIA or injured in theater: 8,388,000

Total military and civilian deaths: 9.9 million military, 7 million civilian

Not much else to be said.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-11-15 16:01