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Pokes-WalkingBoss
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Sadly though when talking about history, WWI is so overlooked. Honestly I don’t remember much about it, only that it began because I believe an Austrian President was asassinated or an attempted asassination. School curriculum should probably do a better job covering it and not just focusing on WW2.WWI -- not a fun time
Sadly though when talking about history, WWI is so overlooked. Honestly I don’t remember much about it, only that it began because I believe an Austrian President was asassinated or an attempted asassination. School curriculum should probably do a better job covering it and not just focusing on WW2.
I listened to a great podcast about WWI that I'd suggest to anyone interested in it.Sadly though when talking about history, WWI is so overlooked. Honestly I don’t remember much about it, only that it began because I believe an Austrian President was asassinated or an attempted asassination. School curriculum should probably do a better job covering it and not just focusing on WW2.
There were some battles early on where the major powers were losing more men in a single day of a single battle than the US lost the entire war. That kind of blew my mind at the time.
1918... why isn't it black and white?
As I understand it quality programs with tradition don’t need to do this crap.Commemorating 1918 - LSU Athletics Creative Services
One hundred years ago, LSU football players hung up their cleats for a greater cause. Many students and faculty of the Ole War Skule left the campus to serve in World War I, continuing the school’s military tradition and canceling the 1918 gridiron season.
In honor of those who did not return, 30 trees were planted in the Memorial Oak Grove with one additional tree dedicated to “The Unknown” missing in action.
To commemorate the century mark of the Silent Season of 1918, LSU will emerge Saturday, Oct. 20, from the Tiger Stadium chute in specially designed uniforms that salute the past and pay homage to heroes.
There's pretty much a 3 hour section of that podcast dedicated to scale like that. He focuses in on a few battles, some less known, just to try and portray the scale of what was happening. The French went into the war without helmets for god's sake. They were still fighting 1800's style.Dumbasses were still using 17th-century tactics to fight a 20th-century conflict. We kind of did the same thing in the Civil War, send in a wave of infantry right into cannon/artillery fire.
There's pretty much a 3 hour section of that podcast dedicated to scale like that. He focuses in on a few battles, some less known, just to try and portray the scale of what was happening. The French went into the war without helmets for god's sake. They were still fighting 1800's style.
I've also read about Polish divisions in WWII that charged German tanks on horseback. That might have been 2 parts bravery and 1 part stupidity
As I understand it quality programs with tradition don’t need to do this crap.
Is LSU going to deploy the Maginot Line defensive scheme.??
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Shhhhhh, Keep that shit on the down low. Do you want Bama fans to poison those trees if they lose to you?The oaks themselves
Is LSU going to deploy the Maginot Line defensive scheme.??
asking for a friend
Aren't those the same people that can't fit their heads in pickle jars and lost the recipe to make ice?
Only when Miss St. runs the ball, our "doughboys" on the line will engage in "trench warfare".
Shhhhhh, Keep that shit on the down low. Do you want Bama fans to poison those trees if they lose to you?