Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries"
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@marty9376 yeah, I visited Verdun, Vaux, Fort Douamont and the ossuary less than a month after my 300day conscript training was over.
In february 2004, I was part of a well drilled battery control squad for three 12cm mortars firing dozens of 13kg airburst fuse shells a day 7.5km across a training field to targets someone else had measured in and observed.
Three weeks later I stood and saw the countless white crosses and the belived impregnable forts, battered to less than the medieval church ruins in my childhood county, together with my father, a retired coastal artillery officer, my uncle, an airline pilot who started his flying career in a jet fighter, and my grandfather, retired printer and entrepreneur who had served as a staff officer's driver while ww2 raged on the other side of our borders.
It was a highly emotional experience, one of sorrow, of frustration and existential contemplation.
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