You'd go outside and hang yourself from one of your mango trees if it weren't for your History Channel viewing time, wouldn't ya?
Very interesting
The Christmas Truce
You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench. It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front.
Stooped over, you wade across to the firing step and take over the watch. Having exchanged pleasantries, your bleary-eyed and mud-spattered colleague shuffles off towards his dug out. Despite the horrors and the hardships, your morale is high and you believe that in the New Year the nation's army march towards a glorious victory.
But for now you stamp your feet in a vain attempt to keep warm. All is quiet when jovial voices call out from both friendly and enemy trenches. Then the men from both sides start singing carols and songs. Next come requests not to fire, and soon the unthinkable happens: you start to see the shadowy shapes of soldiers gathering together in no-man's land laughing, joking and sharing gifts.
Many have exchanged cigarettes, the lit ends of which burn brightly in the inky darkness. Plucking up your courage, you haul yourself up and out of the trench and walk towards the foe...
The meeting of enemies as friends in no-man's land was experienced by hundreds, if not thousands, of men on the Western Front during Christmas 1914. Today, 90 years after it occurred, the event is seen as a shining episode of sanity from among the bloody chapters of World War One ? a spontaneous effort by the lower ranks to create a peace that could have blossomed were it not for the interference of generals and politicians.
You can read more here
http://www.firstworldwar.com/feature...stmastruce.htm
The hunt for Pancho Villa
This story is interesting because it was the first time the newly adopted airplane, Curtiss JN-2, was used to conduct aerial surveillance by the army, it will later became a weapon of war. The Pancho Villa Expedition was an abortive punitive expedition conducted by the United States against the military forces of Mexican Revolutionary General Pancho Villa in retaliation for Villa's invasion of the United States and attack on the village of Columbus, New Mexico. The United States Army Center for Military History officially refers to the campaign as the Mexican Expedition. The official beginning and ending dates are March 14, 1916 and February 7, 1917. Pancho Villa was know as the Robin Hood of the poor Mexican people.
After months of searching, the Americans had to return to the states without him. Some say this was a victory for Pancho Villa, while others believe it proved the capacity of the airplane for the war times.
http://www.afa.org/magazine/1991/0291pursuit.asp
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ June 22, 2005 08:18 PM: Message edited by: MM4 ]</font>
You'd go outside and hang yourself from one of your mango trees if it weren't for your History Channel viewing time, wouldn't ya?
At least I learn something.
I guess your favorite movie quote is "Plastics" [img]wink.gif[/img]
I find Discovery and History Channel to be about the same on the interest scale. They both have excellent shows a lot of times.
"Plastics"? Is that a Mean Girls reference or...? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You better watch "The Graduate" [img]wink.gif[/img]Originally posted by Dajistano?:
I find Discovery and History Channel to be about the same on the interest scale. They both have excellent shows a lot of times.
"Plastics"? Is that a Mean Girls reference or...? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
Damn, this is the second movie reference I haven't gotten today. [img]mad.gif[/img]
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