WW1 Anniversary 2014

'In August 2014 the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Why should we remember? Why should we stop and think about those events that happened so long ago?'

'The crucible of war also proved very creative. Aircraft developed quickly, taking death and destruction into the sky. New ways of fighting made better and more effective use of huge quantities of shells and bullets manufactured on a scale never seen before.'

 "I felt that I didn’t want to live, I’d no wish to live at all, because the world had come to an end, then, for me, because I’d lost all that I’d loved."

Kitty Morter remembering the birth of her baby after her husband had died on the Somme

Women in Louvain in Belgium make their way over rubble and debris towards a group of soldiers in September 1914

 http://www.1914.org/why_remember/