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Scout26

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Re: Colorado Shooter - Life Without Parole
« Reply #125 on: August 18, 2015, 08:55:29 PM »
Actually many of "best and brightest" weren't getting shipped around the world to die for the Empire.  Mostly it was the idiot sons that they didn't trust to run the family business/estate, that got shipped off to the Army/Navy.   It was only once the meat grinder of the Western Front and then getting ground up in France, Africa, the Far East, and in the Atlantic that the flower of British manhood was destroyed.
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Re: Colorado Shooter - Life Without Parole
« Reply #126 on: August 18, 2015, 10:27:23 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on August 18, 2015, 08:55:29 PM
Actually many of "best and brightest" weren't getting shipped around the world to die for the Empire.  Mostly it was the idiot sons that they didn't trust to run the family business/estate, that got shipped off to the Army/Navy.   It was only once the meat grinder of the Western Front and then getting ground up in France, Africa, the Far East, and in the Atlantic that the flower of British manhood was destroyed.

1914-16 wrote the future of 20-21st century Europe more than any other event/time. 1939-45 sharpened the pencil.
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Re: Colorado Shooter - Life Without Parole
« Reply #127 on: August 19, 2015, 05:37:20 AM »
RKL -

In sheer numbers the Brits had been shipping their menfolk around the globe for several centuries.  But for the most part those were not "the best and the brightest" - neither the private soldier and certainly not the officers.

WWI was when the educated middle class began entering service to save Britain from invasion by the Hun.  Oh, yeah!  And to honor its treaties to save France from the Hun and stop the rape of Belgian babies.  WWII was a repeat of the reasons for the educated middle class to enter service, plus the dirty Jap who was threatening the Empire's cash cow holdings.

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