It makes you wonder how the young Austro-Hungarian royals could have been so stupid as to go there and expose themselves to that kind of danger.

My Grandmother was a young woman in Vienna (the capital) when that war began. She said that the whole city was out on the streets delirious with joy, celebration, and excitement as the magnificently uniformed young soldiers marched off to war...everyone cheering and throwing flowers. Four years later they were eating horses, dogs, cats, rats, and potato peelings to stay alive...and even the rats were becoming few and hard to come by.