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**** And "'National Memorial' kinda means 'in DC'" is just not nice.
*** In the museum at the Liberty memorial, there's a glass walkway above a field of 9,000 artificial poppies, each representing a thousand soldiers who died on the western front. The sheer scale of it, and the fact that it only represents a portion of the deaths in World War I, makes me tear up every time.
** The very ''idea'' of World War I is depressing. Life after life after life claimed by a war motivated by, well, nothing. Nothing at all. [[Live -Action TV/Tear Jerker|Just watch]] ''[[Blackadder|Blackadder Goes Forth]]'' for [[Downer Ending|more detail.]]
*** Actually, it was motivated by ambition. Germany wanted to be a powerful country. More powerful than France, which caused a crisis in Morocco. Take a look at the Bismarchian Alliances: thay're made to confuse the countries to the point they didn't even know who was on whose side.
** Or listen to "The Green Fields of France". The utter ultimate futility of such an endeavor boggles the mind.
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