Item On Bbc Re Tracing His Granfather In Wwi

[Helm]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21066648

Interesting stuff, with a man suffering from what we call PTSD sadly

Steve

 

[PamO]

Touching story. Pam

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Thanks - looks like a lot of people are getting interested in an overlooked war at the same time. The surge of interest can be seen on this site, in other specialist Great War interest sites and across the media in general. Amazing how one of the worst wars in history and a war that had such a profound indirect impact on our lives today almost ranked as a forgotten war until a year or two ago.

Colin

 

[housecarl]

Interesting stuff Steve.
Carl.

 

[megroot]

Thanks for sharing. Wondering how many children today would remember these war.
I can only hope that it is still in the lessons at school, because WW 1 is the start of WW 2.

Marc

 

[Colin_Fraser]

My kids had to research an individual name from WWI off the local war memorial in their Grade 10 Cdn history class (as recently as last year). Their teacher was a fanatic for original docuements and managed to spread her excitement to the kids as they reported it, so I sent in my Somme letter and later some other autographs of July 20, 1944 bomb plot participants with my 16 year olds for 'show and tell" - that took some courage on my part!

As I recall, the federal government forced history back into the curriculum as a non-discretionary course a few years ago . There is hope..... at least in some areas of the world.

Colin

 

[Helm]

You'd think in the UK with our wealth of history they'd be spoilt for choice but nope Industrial Revolution and WWII is all my lad has been taught, they covered more than that in Primary School FFS

Steve