tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1431451209451809001..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: 100 years since the end of World War I, a bloodbath that shaped ChicagoNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15837476111771878052019-11-10T08:15:40.531-06:002019-11-10T08:15:40.531-06:00Nope, they wouldn't know what to look for and,...Nope, they wouldn't know what to look for and, besides, the paper would never spend the coin. Half the fun is the digging. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72107847631850709402019-11-10T07:38:42.415-06:002019-11-10T07:38:42.415-06:00Fascinating and informative. I have to think most ...Fascinating and informative. I have to think most people alive today don’t know much about WWI other than it was fought in trenches. Also fascinating to me is the myriad historical details in the article. Neil, do you have a research assistant who provides the historical data?Aunt Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059190273926041821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-62761248105838595812018-11-10T09:25:08.061-06:002018-11-10T09:25:08.061-06:00WW 1 produced great literature. See "the Grea...WW 1 produced great literature. See "the Great War and Modern Memory," by Paul Fussell, but most of it rhetorically different from earlier times, exposing "That old lie: 'Dolce et decorum est, propatria mori'"<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-62507922515450011072018-11-09T16:17:37.885-06:002018-11-09T16:17:37.885-06:00Back in those good old days, they put people in ja...Back in those good old days, they put people in jail here in the good old U.S. of A for saying much the same things in prose.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-1532814538108744272018-11-09T14:00:19.918-06:002018-11-09T14:00:19.918-06:00"War is the statesman's game, the priest&..."War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade." Percy Bysshe Shelley<br /><br />"If any question why we died.<br /> Tell them, because our fathers lied." Kipling<br /><br />"War is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous." Tolstoy<br /><br />"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained." Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington<br /><br /><br />"The Bishop tells us: when the boys come back they will not be the same;<br />For they'll have fought in a just cause: they led the last attack.<br /><br />"We're none of us the same!" the boys reply.<br />For George lost both his legs: and Bill's stone blind<br />"You'll not find a chap who served that hasn't found some change."<br />And the bishop said: "the ways of God are strange." Siegfried Sassoon<br /><br />Tom <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26750017015224341882018-11-09T11:05:33.328-06:002018-11-09T11:05:33.328-06:00Interesting article about the aftermath. https://w...Interesting article about the aftermath. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/a-hundred-years-after-the-armistice?mbid=social_twitter sanfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06580867647162091670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29547541893042819742018-11-09T09:28:37.063-06:002018-11-09T09:28:37.063-06:00Perhaps this will give some readers a chance to vi...Perhaps this will give some readers a chance to visit on Saturday. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45705781709892191272018-11-09T09:13:04.092-06:002018-11-09T09:13:04.092-06:00It's running Sunday, which I knew was a possib...It's running Sunday, which I knew was a possibility, but caught me by surprise when I opened the paper this morning. Otherwise, I would have saved this for Sunday. But it's up now, and maybe readership will build as the day approaches. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-49720515412724509142018-11-09T09:08:09.979-06:002018-11-09T09:08:09.979-06:00To commemorate the end of World War I, another int...To commemorate the end of World War I, another interesting place to visit is Mt. Carmel Cemetery. On Roosevelt Rd. about 1/4 mile west of Wolf Rd. is the south entrance. Enter and drive straight for 100 yards, there are 4 artillery pieces surrounding the graves of soldiers who died in service during the war. Most graves have bronze markers with a beautiful green patina, the details encompass many of the battles in which U.S. soldiers participated.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70989920693773880922018-11-09T09:06:22.071-06:002018-11-09T09:06:22.071-06:00I'm confused. Was this in the paper yesterday...I'm confused. Was this in the paper yesterday? Or just in the on-line version? I didn't see it in the actual paper today or yesterday. <br /><br />Anyway, thanks for the "trench coat." I never made the connection. <br /><br />As to the War: that's even more confusing. Both sides had been making detailed plans for almost 50 years, while the general mood seemed to bely the possibility of hostilities. Yet the assassination led inexorably to fighting, which in turn became the suicidal "trench" warfare. And at the end, when it seemed Germany was about to capture Paris and if not win, at least force negotiations, it collapsed almost overnight, leading to German misery and resentment and Hitler and World War II.<br /><br />I must have passed the Elks Memorial hundreds of times when I lived and worked on the North Side, but never thought it a place one could actually go in and look around. Maybe it's about time to do so for me and for other readers who didn't know of it.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.com