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July 1, 1916 - first day of the Battle of the Somme
“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”
- F.Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Now that that generation has passed, and the following generation that witnessed the bloodlands of Hitler and Stalin, have we forgotten the real lessons of the 20th century? Will our children have to learn them again?
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