Yesterday was the official 94th anniversary of the ending of World War I. It was described as "the war to end all wars." Official statistics indicate that 16 million men and women died and another 20 million were wounded. The madness of the final few hours was that the combatants kept fighting right up to 11:00 AM on 11 November, 1918. The last soldier killed was a 40 year old British coal miner. If I had been there I would have sat down when I got up on the 11th of November and" let the clock run out." All of the poor survivors felt good about making it through this awful war. Little did they know that an epidemic of Spanish influenza was about to follow. It killed another 20 million people worldwide. Sadly this was nothing compared to the 56 million official war deaths in World War II and another 40 million who died in the Soviet Union due to purges, famines, etc. War still goes on today. At least the casualties are not what they were in these awful conflicts in the last century.
Life takes us in many strange directions and wonderful discoveries. It never turns out the way we thought it would.
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