Battlefield 1 Rekindles World War 1 History
For the first time in a while, we have a first-person shooter video game out that brings the best graphics and killing that is WW1. But in all honesty, it comes nothing to the amount of death, rather, senseless death. How it Began Think about how the War started, fate stepped in. A group of plotters including Gavrilo Princip in a conspiracy to assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand gathered along a parade route in Serbia. The Arch Duke was visiting to see military maneuvers in Sarajevo. They throw a bomb, it explodes and hits the car and bounces off, hits the next car […]
The Last American WWI Veteran Frank Buckles Dies
This is pretty sad news and I haven’t seen any of the major news agencies reporting it. He died at the ripe old age of 110 yesterday the 27th of February. He died in his sleep at his farm in West Virginia. Men of this caliber are rarely seen today. Original Source of his biography located here, and here. Frank Woodruff Buckles’ life spans the awesome, horrible, fantastic, dreadful Twentieth Century. He has seen and experienced much. As America’s last surviving veteran witness to the First World War, his life experiences and perspective are a living artifact in our day […]