tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post8227169161885672858..comments2024-03-28T12:21:46.299-07:00Comments on Roads to the Great War: The British Army Children Archivesnielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631473280484584330noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-8544060730068838242014-05-24T07:13:34.087-07:002014-05-24T07:13:34.087-07:00Thank you so much for publishing this, I didn'...Thank you so much for publishing this, I didn't know of its existence. TACA surely is a significant source of material for those seeking insight into various periods of British military involvement; the tragic and grotesque losses of the Great War are particularly of interest to this reader. That generation born in the early 1920s to those of the Great War generation, those that had a "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-52431890160516105672014-05-04T12:01:35.413-07:002014-05-04T12:01:35.413-07:00You've got to take the jingoism with a grain o...You've got to take the jingoism with a grain of salt. A ubiquitous sentiment in that era. As an ophthalmologist, I appreciate "The child he will never see" card. (I read that they used Ammonia and Chlorine gas last week in Syria). Do you think that the child saying "...and I mean to grow up just like him...," knew he would have the chance to do just that?#visualizepeacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02786144061040850253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-81912116474010032822014-05-04T09:49:24.859-07:002014-05-04T09:49:24.859-07:00What a fabulous collection! (Not without some prop...What a fabulous collection! (Not without some propaganda value, to be sure....)Diane Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16794521230958515051noreply@blogger.com