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Thread #124991 Message #2766145
Posted By: Lighter
14-Nov-09 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: Obit:Last of the Last-WWI veteran, dies at age 110
Subject: RE: Last of the Last - WWI veteran, author at age 108

Yeah, what is this "Blood Debt" stuff? News to me.

Also, before condemning the Brits alone for squandering human life on the Somme (though obviously they did), let's consider the nearly 500,000 German casualties at Verdun - the result of the German "strategy" to "bleed France dry."

It was all quite mad.