Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post" video.

@cryalowicki Try here https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eerie-recording-reveals-moment-the-guns-fell-silent-at-the-end-of-ww1-8114109/ The tape is a sound ranging tape from 11/11/1918. copied last year by audio enginners. Made by the Imperial War Musuem.
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Another officer who served at Verdun, was Alfred Dreyfus, the French Officer held on Devil's Island following trumped up espinage charges.
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The Belgium EOD reckon they will have about another 100 year of work to clear ordnace. One disturbing little fact. Which country has the most chemical weapons? Belgium. All Great War vintage. Disposal costs millions of Euro per year.
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Well, Poilu is 'The Hairy One' :-)
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@clothar23 One of the reasons that all the British and Commonwealth casualties were buried where they fell, and the reason for the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.
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When doing any sort of digging in the area of the Western Front -1 Put up wind markers, 2 If when digging, or shortly afterwards, you get any , irritation of the eyes , shortness of breath , tingiling of the skin or a funny smell, get the hell up wind and ring for help. No joke, yes the stuff is still there and still lethal.
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@hihu7200 Keep both eyes on the past, you will make the same mistakes,. Keep both eyes on the future, and you will still make the same mistakes. You are absolutley right.
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@hihu7200 Thanks for that. A few years back Belgium spent E15,000,000 on a new facility to neautralis the chemical weapons they have already found. Any digging over there , first thing you do is put up wind markers, any funny smell, smarting of eyes or tingiling of skin when you are digging, get the hell up wind and phone for help.
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Warning: Once you start, there is NO known cure. Start somewhere like Ipere's, the Menein Gate Ceremony is something all kids should see, Hers another place I would recommend , two wars for the price of one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall_open-air_museum Should add, Ian's Trench of Death vidieo, it's about 15 miles away from the Atlantic Wall.
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@VegasCyclingFreak Glad you see the point Most people are horrified by the story. Though as an aside the British put out a call for Doctor's who had worked in India during the Famine to help with the Concentration Camp victims. Even now the mix used for famine victims is called 'Bombay Formula'.
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If you do ever vist any of the Wesern Front, tread carfully, you don't know who you are walking on. And that is not a joke.
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Try reading Lord of the Rings, and remember that Tolkien was an infantary officer on the Western Front, only for about 6 weeks though before be sent home with trench fever. The books take on a whole new aspect.
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@shawnr771 Not when you think what's down there. Belive me you'd fight for the chance. It is treasure hunt, that exciets, and sobers. you at the same time.
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@hihu7200 And damm near the same political situation in Eastern Europe. That's the worrying thing.
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@jeanberthus7162 Thanks for that, learnt something new.
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French history leading up to the Franco -Prusssian war and after is worth browsing. You could argue that it was War one , the Great War , war two and the Second world war, was the third round.
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@wallaroo1295 Dodge owners should stick together, to many damm Jeeps about. Any way, it does seem to me that wars are in a time of plenty, if your sosciety is staving and diseas ridden, most people are to concerned with staying alive. Another thing , oddball, it seems to me that every time there is a major war, there are bad winters, wonder if it is all the dust and smoke being kicked up.
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@clothar23 Prior to The Great War the French Military had pulled itself apart over the loss of the Franco -Prussian War leading to the surrender of Alcase and Lorraine plus the Dreyfus Affair. To many soldiers playing polotics and poloticains palying soldier.
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@clothar23 True, we in UK had a remarkable polotician called Paddy Ashdown, he was ex Special Boat Service. Jim Calahan a Labour Prime Minister was a lowly Matleo, British Royal Naval seaman. , but as for your second question? A lot of good men have died for some to try and prove thier strength.
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So very very true.
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It was Empires that caused revoloution and war in the first place. The clarion cry of 'No Taxation without Representation ' comes to mind.
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The French had a saying at the time, rough transalation, Five and Two,- Five marks for every two Francs spent on the military, and Five Germans for every two French men! The other was 'Remember Alsace Lorraine! '
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@oOkenzoOo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall_open-air_museum And in The Great War, if you ever get the chance this place is fantastic. Funny though Belgium wa scarved out as a nation and made Neuteral, specifically to stop people fighting there. It was The Cockpit of Europe
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I live near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Sidcup, Kent England. The hospital became a world centre of excellence for plastic and reconstructive surgery during and after the Great War. The archive pictures are on line, just not after a big meal.
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@VegasCyclingFreak I knew a very acomplished Jewish Surgeon. He shook me one day by saying 'The biggest crime of the Nazi medical experiments were that they were so badly done'. No proper records and poor techniques' As you can imagine I was dumbstruck! Then he added 'Those people suffered for nothing! Nothing we can use came out of thier deaths it was all pointless, they lost thier lives and left no legacy.' The only ones done right were Luftwaffe Hypothermia experiments, if you are treated for it, or learn techniques to avoid it, or have any cryogenic sugery, give thanks to those unkown victims.
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