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{{quote|''A knife that had traveled to France in 1917 with a boy, a boy who had been part of a boy-army ready and willing to stop the dirty hun from bayoneting babies and raping nuns, ready to show the Frenchies a thing or two in the bargain; and the boys had been machine-gunned, the boys had gotten dysentery and the killer flu, the boys had inhaled mustard gas and phosgene gas, the boys had come out of Belleau Wood looking like haunted scarecrows who had seen the face of Lord Satan himself. And it had all turned out to be for nothing; it turned out that it all had to be done over again.''|'''Stephen King''', ''[[The Dead Zone]]''}} |
{{quote|''A knife that had traveled to France in 1917 with a boy, a boy who had been part of a boy-army ready and willing to stop the dirty hun from bayoneting babies and raping nuns, ready to show the Frenchies a thing or two in the bargain; and the boys had been machine-gunned, the boys had gotten dysentery and the killer flu, the boys had inhaled mustard gas and phosgene gas, the boys had come out of Belleau Wood looking like haunted scarecrows who had seen the face of Lord Satan himself. And it had all turned out to be for nothing; it turned out that it all had to be done over again.''|'''Stephen King''', ''[[The Dead Zone]]''}} |
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{{quote|''We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.''|'''Erich Maria Remarque''', ''[[All Quiet |
{{quote|''We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.''|'''Erich Maria Remarque''', ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]''}} |
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{{quote|''I wanna tell a story / of world war no. 1...''|'''The War''' by ''[[Running Wild ( |
{{quote|''I wanna tell a story / of world war no. 1...''|'''The War''' by ''[[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Private Baldrick''': ''I heard that [the war] started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.''<br /> |
{{quote|'''Private Baldrick''': ''I heard that [the war] started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.''<br /> |
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'''Captain Blackadder''': ''Yes, that's right. There was a tiny flaw in the plan.''<br /> |
'''Captain Blackadder''': ''Yes, that's right. There was a tiny flaw in the plan.''<br /> |
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'''Lt. George''': ''What was that, sir?''<br /> |
'''Lt. George''': ''What was that, sir?''<br /> |
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'''Captain Blackadder''': ''It was bollocks.''|''[[ |
'''Captain Blackadder''': ''It was bollocks.''|''[[Blackadder]] Goes Forth''}} |
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{{quote|''The lights are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.''|'''Sir Edward Grey''', British Foreign Secretary on the eve of the war.}} |
{{quote|''The lights are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.''|'''Sir Edward Grey''', British Foreign Secretary on the eve of the war.}} |
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'''Son of Mine:''' What do you know of history, sir? What do you know of next year?<br /> |
'''Son of Mine:''' What do you know of history, sir? What do you know of next year?<br /> |
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'''Headmaster:''' You’re not making sense.<br /> |
'''Headmaster:''' You’re not making sense.<br /> |
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'''Son of Mine:''' 1914, sir. Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and oh, the things we have seen! War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?!|''[[ |
'''Son of Mine:''' 1914, sir. Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and oh, the things we have seen! War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?!|''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Family of Blood"}} |
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Revision as of 15:13, 8 April 2014
Never again.
—Epitaph on a French War Memorial
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If any question why we died, —Epitaphs of the War, Rudyard Kipling
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I could not dig, I dared not rob —Epitaphs of the War, Rudyard Kipling
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle? —Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
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A knife that had traveled to France in 1917 with a boy, a boy who had been part of a boy-army ready and willing to stop the dirty hun from bayoneting babies and raping nuns, ready to show the Frenchies a thing or two in the bargain; and the boys had been machine-gunned, the boys had gotten dysentery and the killer flu, the boys had inhaled mustard gas and phosgene gas, the boys had come out of Belleau Wood looking like haunted scarecrows who had seen the face of Lord Satan himself. And it had all turned out to be for nothing; it turned out that it all had to be done over again.
—Stephen King, The Dead Zone
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We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
—Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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I wanna tell a story / of world war no. 1...
—The War by Running Wild
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Private Baldrick: I heard that [the war] started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry. —Blackadder Goes Forth
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The lights are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
—Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary on the eve of the war.
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Son of Mine: All your little tin soldiers. But tell me sir, will they thank you? —Doctor Who, "The Family of Blood"
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