Dave MuthKing Wenceslaus IV, shown wearing his mother's bra into battle, was NOT the GOOD King W known from Xmas carols. He was a pretty good soldier, we'll leave it at that.
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Watching one of our favorite films for December, the tragic Tora!Tora!Tora! Directors Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku. It’s the Japanese version with 2 addional scenes and director commentary, watching it with subtitles. Actors, production values, cinematography are brilliant. When it first came out I watched it for the battleship destruction, but have come to appreciate its political tragedy narrative.
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#WarAboutOil
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WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Much has been said in this country about not wanting to participate in foreign wars and people who have said it, must now face the fact that foreign wars come very close to our own shores. We will always have not only the religious groups, but many groups who feel that war is wrong. I cannot imagine how anyone could feel otherwise with the picture before them today. But when force not only rules in certain countries, but is as menacing to all the world, as it is today, one cannot live in a Utopia which prays for different conditions and ignores those which exist.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-05-17), “My Day”
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
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Column (1940-05-17), "My Day" - Roosevelt, Eleanor | WIST Quotations
Much has been said in this country about not wanting to participate in foreign wars and people who have said it, must now face the fact that foreign wars come very close to our own shores. We will always have not only the religious groups, but many groups who feel…
Henrik SundströmTrump is quite mad.
As he said, Department of Defense should rather be Department of War.
Now https://www.defense.gov/ points to https://www.war.gov/
War is hell, war is crazy.
Masked_HimboReading All Quiet on the Western Front for the first time felt like getting hit by emotional shrapnel. I expected a war novel, but what I got was a raw, haunting portrayal of humanity unraveling in the trenches.
One scene, in particular, stayed with me is the moment Paul stabs a French soldier in a shell hole. It’s brutal, yes, but what broke me was everything that followed. Paul’s desperate attempts to save the man he just killed, speaking to him, apologizing, humanizing him after the act. That sequence isn’t just tragic, it’s unbearable in its honesty.
Remarque doesn’t glorify war; he strips it down to bone and mud, showing us the psychological torment and the fragility of empathy in a world designed to crush it.
This isn’t just a war novel. It’s a eulogy for a generation.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
(Five shell-shocking stars)
#AllQuietOnTheWesternFront #ErichMariaRemarque #WarIsHell #AntiWarNovel #WWI #TrenchWarfare #ClassicLiterature #BookReview #FirstTimeRead #HistoricalFiction #MustReadBooks #LiteraryClassic #WarLiterature #BookLover
One scene, in particular, stayed with me is the moment Paul stabs a French soldier in a shell hole. It’s brutal, yes, but what broke me was everything that followed. Paul’s desperate attempts to save the man he just killed, speaking to him, apologizing, humanizing him after the act. That sequence isn’t just tragic, it’s unbearable in its honesty.
Remarque doesn’t glorify war; he strips it down to bone and mud, showing us the psychological torment and the fragility of empathy in a world designed to crush it.
This isn’t just a war novel. It’s a eulogy for a generation.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
(Five shell-shocking stars)
#AllQuietOnTheWesternFront #ErichMariaRemarque #WarIsHell #AntiWarNovel #WWI #TrenchWarfare #ClassicLiterature #BookReview #FirstTimeRead #HistoricalFiction #MustReadBooks #LiteraryClassic #WarLiterature #BookLover
Andy TsengMany won’t read this - it’s easier to look away. ANY war, no matter the cause, leaves no heroes, only shattered lives. Spare a thought for those trapped in unimaginable pain while we carry on with comforts they may never know.
#Peace #WarIsHell #Humanity #Gaza #Palestine #Israel
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TootsThroughTheAges"Feeling a bit cramped at Stalag Luft I, but I must say, nothing says 'welcome back' like a bunch of Soviets rolling in with tanks! Can't wait to swap my POW rations for some borscht! #FreedomAtLast #WarIsHell"
- American Airman
Apr 30, 1945 - World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9,000 American and British airmen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_I
Gentleman & Gangster
"It leaves almost no chance of survival."
#Ukraine's ambassador in London, former general, Valery #Zaluzny, said to Ukrainian soldiers training in the UK:
“Remember that war becomes more cruel every day.
“It leaves almost no chance of survival. But war will be afraid of those that are ready to join it.”
The Sun:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31815794/ukraine-war-iron-general-russia-troops-training-england/
Watch as Ukrainian troops training in UK are told to ‘kill without hesitation’ in stirring speech by ex ‘Ir...
UKRAINE’S hero army recruits must learn to kill Russians “without hesitation” their former commander in chief was warned. General Valerii Zaluzhnyi told troops at a bootcamp in England: “When you s…
Ms. Que BanhCountless #BlackAmericans had openly opposed the #VietnamWar. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."
Still, thanks to the draft's implicit #RacialBias , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated #BlackMen. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.
Photo from Life Magazine archives.
#BlackAmericanHistory #SystematicRacism #WhitePrivilege #USA #KKKAmerica #MilitaryDraft #RacistUSA #AsianMastodon #StopAllWars #WarIsHell
