Comments on: Remembering The Fallen http://www.chrisweigant.com/2014/06/05/remembering-the-fallen/ Reality-based political commentary Sun, 10 May 2026 05:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: DisabledDoc http://www.chrisweigant.com/2014/06/05/remembering-the-fallen/#comment-49337 DisabledDoc Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:05:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=9197#comment-49337 My grandfather used to tell stories about his experiences in WWI -- he was in a transport battalion & he says when they finished training they lined them up & half got mules and wagons, half got trucks -- the state of mechanization of the US Army in 1917! 'I got a truck', he said, and since he didn't see any point in driving it back empty (after taking ammo and other supplies to the front) he would fill it with wounded to take back. Probably deserved a medal but he would never boast about such things. He lived to the age of 102, so even my children got to hear his stories. I think our neglect of WWI is part of our overall neglect of history. We're very poor at history, especially anything that doesn't involve us. A lot of Americans don't realize that either war started before the Americans got involved. Why does WWI get even more neglect than most? It got overshadowed by II, I guess. My grandfather used to tell stories about his experiences in WWI -- he was in a transport battalion & he says when they finished training they lined them up & half got mules and wagons, half got trucks -- the state of mechanization of the US Army in 1917! 'I got a truck', he said, and since he didn't see any point in driving it back empty (after taking ammo and other supplies to the front) he would fill it with wounded to take back. Probably deserved a medal but he would never boast about such things. He lived to the age of 102, so even my children got to hear his stories.

I think our neglect of WWI is part of our overall neglect of history. We're very poor at history, especially anything that doesn't involve us. A lot of Americans don't realize that either war started before the Americans got involved. Why does WWI get even more neglect than most? It got overshadowed by II, I guess.

]]> By: YoYoTheAssyrian http://www.chrisweigant.com/2014/06/05/remembering-the-fallen/#comment-49333 YoYoTheAssyrian Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:20:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=9197#comment-49333 All the more important to think back on world war I, it'll be a hundred years ago this August. For a nice personal focus on the american experience I would recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/On-Western-Front-Rainbow-Division/dp/0806140321 Check it out, It's a diary of a radio operator with the rainbow division. Which was the premier american formation in France. All the more important to think back on world war I, it'll be a hundred years ago this August.

For a nice personal focus on the american experience I would recommend this book.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Western-Front-Rainbow-Division/dp/0806140321

Check it out, It's a diary of a radio operator with the rainbow division. Which was the premier american formation in France.

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