From the same state that celebrates Robert E. Lee's birthday on MLK Jr. Day. And the same state that refuses to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
@IveyJanette
Time to start teaching people the facts. Were his ancestors slave owners? Or were his ancestors the poor suckers who were forced to fight for them? Had to desert because of lack of food or equipment? Return permanently disabled? #warishell
Harry Patch was the last surviving combat soldier who fought in the trenches during World War I. He died in 2009 at the age of 111.
Patch compared the experiences of war to seeing “hell upon this Earth.”
This energetic #AntiWar song is about how millions of men in #WWI went to fight in a war that was supposed to end all wars. They discovered one fact about it, and that was that #WarIsHell.