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I was there in the trenches fighting like mad cats to gain just a foot’s advance in that damned French mud and those awful Krauts gassed the hell out of us on a daily basis. One morning I looked to my right and saw my good buddy, Chip Chippers, got the better parts of his face all sorted by a cavalryman’s horseshoe and I clutched the onion on my belt.

We all wore onions on our belts.

It was the style of the time.

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So WW1 was over 100 years ago. Those that do remember it didn't fight in it. Some insight though. It's a war where a lot changed. A bunch of greedy men sent their citizens to fight for them for dishonorable purposes.

Calvaries ended mostly because of this war. They no longer worked with the technology that was provided. Trench Warfare became the norm. Something interesting I once heard from a vet (now dead) was that the Americans were already used to a similar warfare before they joined. The civil war in the USA refined the strategies of the American military. They were trained to shoot further and knew not to run straight into machine gun fire constantly in an attempt to take land. It was best to pick them off from afar and flank them whenever possible. This was about my understanding from an old guy that had seen some things. Tanks and barbed wire became more common. Artillery shoots further away. Chemical warfare changed from pooping in their rivers and giving clothes covered in plague to mustard gas. Just in WW1 alone motorized vehicles came into the picture. I think the first recorded was a French taxi cab. In that war alone we went from horseback to planes. Since then we've tried to avoid large scale combat like this. It's often a big nation and then guerrilla fighters. Hard to kill when you don't know exactly where the enemy is or who they are. It seems we may be returning to large conflict though. The RU war has trenches and greedy men driving towards a dishonorable purpose.

I do believe there are many honorable individuals that must do terrible things because of greedy men. Some of these greedy men may feel backed into a corner and see war as their only options. War is terrible and a clean cut of what is right or wrong is not possible. Victors will write history and both sides have different views.

TLDR. WW1 vets dead. One once said Americans got good at WW1 because they shot themselves a lot beforehand. We may be going full circle in stupid strategies because of greedy men and foolish military leaders.

Should have posted in r/askghosts.

Actually can someone make that a subreddit where we all pretend to be ghosts and talk about our made up old timey experiences?

War.

War never changes.

Undocumented WW1 vet here who served at Gallipoli and recently did a stint on the frontlines at Mariupol.

Having been in both trenches, although the mustard gas in WW1 was evil stuff that blistered your skin right up, nothing can compare with having a grenade dropped on you with a drone from AliExpress. I lost my other arm (the first was blown off in a Viet cong booby trap in Nam). Several of my colleagues were not so lucky though.

LOL there are only a tiny handful of veterans still alive from World War II, the last of the World War I vets have all passed.

Do you make a typo?

Well, think about it this way. The war began in 1914, ended in 1918.

At the beginning of the war, an 18 year old soldier would have been born in 1896. Today, he would be 127 years old. Sure there were instances of soldiers enlisting under the age. Possibly down to 15-16. So that's not much of a difference.

If you enlisted in the end of the war, 1918 at the age of 18. The soldier would be 123 years old. Yet again, lets account for underage enlistment, at best, 120 years old.

And by the off chance there would be a soldier left alive. I seriously doubt that a 120+ year old would be surfing reddit.

It’s changed a lot!

Source: am WWI vet, 130 years old. Undocumented, so don’t tell anyone.