Nantillois
having been drafted into what Pope Benedict XV called
the "needless slaughter" of what history calls the First
World War, was poisoned with mustard gas 87 years
ago this week...
posted by tdw @ 9:52 p.m.
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25 september 2005
Nantillois
having been drafted into what Pope Benedict XV called
the "needless slaughter" of what history calls the First
World War, was poisoned with mustard gas 87 years
ago this week...
3 Comments:
huh.
i was just thinking and maybe i'm totally off of my rocker, but ya know how when watching world war documenteries everything is in black and white? has anyone else ever kind of subconsciously assumed that's how everyone lived? in a world of black and white? were they didn't see color? i mean, obviously i know they did...but just going from the colored picture on the blog to the black and white panoramic, where the viewer really does see this town in black and white, my first thought was "so that's what it looked like."
anyways, my point to all this is that, to see these same photos or newsreels in color wouldn't be fitting. because even though these people lived in color...the world spiritually, and even some ways physically too, was just a bunch of shades of gray. i remember from last year's pbs documentaries, the soldiers talking about the beautiful sunsets mocking them and the world, the battlefields, the trenches, the hospitals that they lived and fought in.
and i LOVE black and white too, movies, photographs, anything, it seems always capture a certain element that color can't, and i suppose in this case it just captures the bleekness and hopelessness of it all.
but also...it seems to me...that in our own age we use bright lights and colors and fancy designs and images, to distract ourselves. to make everything seem much brighter than it really is. like we try and color up the ugly with too much colorful noise...if that makes any sense.
sorry, i don't think this post has made much sense. stupid language limitations!
and i wish i had the words to express how i feel towards your grandfather and men like him tdw. they all paid so dearly for humanity's stupidity and for that i am truly, truly sorry.
sad
@ attendant lord
i honestly have thought thats how people lived back then
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