The Other Side Of WWI: The Men Who Were Shot At Dawn Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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It sounds like we have some governments that are cowards. They kill someone because things that doesn't matter. I dont care who you are. I dont care how tough you are. You will have days you aren't as brave as others. That doesn't make anyone a coward. It sounds more like the ones that push penciled making decisions to kill not kill enemy's either. Comrads. Who ever makes the decision to kill one of their own is the coward. Doesnt sound like they done anything heroic. Those guys they killed theres no yelling what all those guys seen and done. Once you snuff out one of your own lives. The one making that decision. I hope their souls are unresting until their decisions are made right.
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It sounds like we have some governments that are cowards. They kill someone because things that doesn't matter. I dont care who you are. I dont care how tough you are. You will have days you aren't as brave as others. That doesn't make anyone a coward. It sounds more like the ones that push penciled making decisions to kill not kill enemy's either. Comrads. Who ever makes the decision to kill one of their own is the coward. Doesnt sound like they done anything heroic. Those guys they killed theres no yelling what all those guys seen and done. Once you snuff out one of your own lives. The one making that decision. I hope their souls are unresting until their decisions are made right.
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Graham
As has been (correctly) theorised, the bulk of the Soldiers executed by the British, were either shell shocked, or suffering from what was to become known, in later decades, as PTSD. without being either known, or understood at the time. The driving, and actual reason for Australian politicians outlawing the capital execution of Australian servicemen, was the fact that the Australian Army. during WW1, was the only ALL Volunteer Empire Army, who came to the defence of the Home country. Simply put, one doesn't execute Volunteers.
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As has been (correctly) theorised, the bulk of the Soldiers executed by the British, were either shell shocked, or suffering from what was to become known, in later decades, as PTSD. without being either known, or understood at the time. The driving, and actual reason for Australian politicians outlawing the capital execution of Australian servicemen, was the fact that the Australian Army. during WW1, was the only ALL Volunteer Empire Army, who came to the defence of the Home country. Simply put, one doesn't execute Volunteers.
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Jeremykwanhong
The two underlying reasons for the execution of these poor men are poor leadership and strategic blunder from their own high command. The were once willing to fight but could not do so when they discovered that their leaders were extremely negligent, ignorant and indifferent towards their plight and suffering on the killing fields of the war. The moral is do not expect the men to fight if one could not even set a good example for the soldiers. In short, the leaders stay put while the young men did the dying.
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The two underlying reasons for the execution of these poor men are poor leadership and strategic blunder from their own high command. The were once willing to fight but could not do so when they discovered that their leaders were extremely negligent, ignorant and indifferent towards their plight and suffering on the killing fields of the war. The moral is do not expect the men to fight if one could not even set a good example for the soldiers. In short, the leaders stay put while the young men did the dying.
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michael
Im thankful my great grandfather that didnt serve n made it home. The other was jailed for 18months for coweredess. Had one not resist n the other get blinded I would not be commenting! Never trusted those tea sipping pan tie waist teabag limmys! NO JUSTICE NO HOUNOR RIP YOU BRAVE LADS. This made me cry. I feel so lucky even thou we live in filth. Land n ppl.
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Im thankful my great grandfather that didnt serve n made it home. The other was jailed for 18months for coweredess. Had one not resist n the other get blinded I would not be commenting! Never trusted those tea sipping pan tie waist teabag limmys! NO JUSTICE NO HOUNOR RIP YOU BRAVE LADS. This made me cry. I feel so lucky even thou we live in filth. Land n ppl.
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ThePowerOf42
Only thing more tragic is those who needlesly was killed for a mere meter or a needless hill in the last hours just so the brazz could get a medal more.
All that would be given free when the armestice would take place
Shows the generals never cared about their soldiers, for them they were just pins on a map
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Only thing more tragic is those who needlesly was killed for a mere meter or a needless hill in the last hours just so the brazz could get a medal more.
All that would be given free when the armestice would take place
Shows the generals never cared about their soldiers, for them they were just pins on a map
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Lochlainn
Brit government sent all these young men to war with ancient tactics. Slaughtered by ancient officers. Nothing was known about PTSD. Still, a lot of them have never been pardoned by modern part time fecking Prime Ministers. Shame on you feckers who have been cocooned in your own secured insensitivity,
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Brit government sent all these young men to war with ancient tactics. Slaughtered by ancient officers. Nothing was known about PTSD. Still, a lot of them have never been pardoned by modern part time fecking Prime Ministers. Shame on you feckers who have been cocooned in your own secured insensitivity,
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Dave
All one need do is look at the very last day, the very last hours, of that war and the men who were killed in needless assaults on German lines when they could have waited a few hours and strolled right through the lines unmolested. British, French and Americans all did this.
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All one need do is look at the very last day, the very last hours, of that war and the men who were killed in needless assaults on German lines when they could have waited a few hours and strolled right through the lines unmolested. British, French and Americans all did this.
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Richard
Words fail me.
At 22: 46 That poor distraught Beautiful, Brave Lady Mrs Farr, widowed by her own government and then cast out to fend for herself, refusing to be separated from their daughter. Interviewed in 1993 and her husband should still have been at her side.
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Words fail me.
At 22: 46 That poor distraught Beautiful, Brave Lady Mrs Farr, widowed by her own government and then cast out to fend for herself, refusing to be separated from their daughter. Interviewed in 1993 and her husband should still have been at her side.
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Quattordici
It's unfortunate that, in war, the guilty tend to be the ones to survive. I often wonder if the world wouldn't have been a lot better if the Germans won WW1. For one, we wouldn't have had the nazis. And they quite frankly seem to have been the gentler players.
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It's unfortunate that, in war, the guilty tend to be the ones to survive. I often wonder if the world wouldn't have been a lot better if the Germans won WW1. For one, we wouldn't have had the nazis. And they quite frankly seem to have been the gentler players.
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Thailand
They were using common sense in heat of battle which wasnt allowed. Thats why in ww2 the Germans always came out on top that were permitted to use their own initiative as they saw fit. Not much changed thats why I left. Disgraceful and Haigs a murdering bast##d
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They were using common sense in heat of battle which wasnt allowed. Thats why in ww2 the Germans always came out on top that were permitted to use their own initiative as they saw fit. Not much changed thats why I left. Disgraceful and Haigs a murdering bast##d
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Loare-ain
The military didnt play games back then, and it suited the time period. Its not a great thing. I mean, no killing is a great thing. No sense wringing ones hands over this. Its over and done, and not practiced, for the most part in western armies these days.
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The military didnt play games back then, and it suited the time period. Its not a great thing. I mean, no killing is a great thing. No sense wringing ones hands over this. Its over and done, and not practiced, for the most part in western armies these days.
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Dave
If it was a good idea to kill your own men 100 years ago to set an example why dont we still do it? I wonder if the recruiter mentioned that possible scenario. When I saw this title I knew it would make me angry and sad for these poor men and their families.
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If it was a good idea to kill your own men 100 years ago to set an example why dont we still do it? I wonder if the recruiter mentioned that possible scenario. When I saw this title I knew it would make me angry and sad for these poor men and their families.
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Mike
One of my cousins in Vietnam killed his Sargent and was sentenced to life and became one of the founder's of the Aryan brotherhood. He died in ADX super max's a few years ago. He also killed a few prison guards in Marion Federal Prison.
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One of my cousins in Vietnam killed his Sargent and was sentenced to life and became one of the founder's of the Aryan brotherhood. He died in ADX super max's a few years ago. He also killed a few prison guards in Marion Federal Prison.
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Just to Think that today our Governments are so strongly opposed to the Capital punishment of murderering criminals but still reluctant to pardon those that's only crime was not being able to stand the horrific nature of war anymore.
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Just to Think that today our Governments are so strongly opposed to the Capital punishment of murderering criminals but still reluctant to pardon those that's only crime was not being able to stand the horrific nature of war anymore.
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Grnd
A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. ____William Shakespeare
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A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. ____William Shakespeare
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OJ
Exonerate these faultless boys and men and award them military honours. They were human and brave. Government is inhumane and cowardly. What a disgrace. I hold government in timeless contempt. There is no actual reason not to. -B.
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Exonerate these faultless boys and men and award them military honours. They were human and brave. Government is inhumane and cowardly. What a disgrace. I hold government in timeless contempt. There is no actual reason not to. -B.
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Hugh
The sound of Harry Farr's wife describing how she kept the secret of her husband's fate to herself until the time when she was put out of her lodgings 'cos her widow's pension had been stopped just fills me with shame. (23: 00)
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The sound of Harry Farr's wife describing how she kept the secret of her husband's fate to herself until the time when she was put out of her lodgings 'cos her widow's pension had been stopped just fills me with shame. (23: 00)
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Phil
I'll never understand why all those brave men, never turned on the real cowards plotting their next massacres from the safety of some chateau while stuffing their faces and drinking fine wines miles away from the front.
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I'll never understand why all those brave men, never turned on the real cowards plotting their next massacres from the safety of some chateau while stuffing their faces and drinking fine wines miles away from the front.
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honda4004
AT 37. 17 IT WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THE war will be OVER IN 6 MONTHS YES A GREAT PLAY ON WORDS FOR THE YOUNG IGNORANCE ONES ON THE WORD MANIPULATION. AS IT WOULD BE OVER FOR MANY IN 6 MONTHS AS THEY WOULD BE KILLED
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AT 37. 17 IT WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THE war will be OVER IN 6 MONTHS YES A GREAT PLAY ON WORDS FOR THE YOUNG IGNORANCE ONES ON THE WORD MANIPULATION. AS IT WOULD BE OVER FOR MANY IN 6 MONTHS AS THEY WOULD BE KILLED
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Kenny
Similar to why parachutes werent issued to pilots and aircrew. high command thought it would breed cowardice when a pilot or airman jumped out of a burning box kite that had an engine and a rudder.
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Similar to why parachutes werent issued to pilots and aircrew. high command thought it would breed cowardice when a pilot or airman jumped out of a burning box kite that had an engine and a rudder.
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