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GWF contribution to Centenary
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Chris_Baker
, Jun 26 2011 07:45 AM
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Posted 31 July 2012 - 10:00 PM
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:11 PM
On thinking over this topic, I keep going back to the idea of a forum where GWF pals post something from a local newspaper of the time, perhaps where they live or work, on a Great War related story.
For example, in 2015, I could go back to a Sussex newspaper that date hundred years earlier, and post about how said newspaper covered a recruitment meeting addressed by church ministers on the seafront in Hove,
Next day, a pal in Belgium could draw on a local source to find a Great War related article, the following day a pal in Australia , and so on. We could draw on the international membership of the GWF this way.
Regards
Michael Bully
For example, in 2015, I could go back to a Sussex newspaper that date hundred years earlier, and post about how said newspaper covered a recruitment meeting addressed by church ministers on the seafront in Hove,
Next day, a pal in Belgium could draw on a local source to find a Great War related article, the following day a pal in Australia , and so on. We could draw on the international membership of the GWF this way.
Regards
Michael Bully
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 08:31 AM
I had a thought after reading this in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars:
"There are about fourteen dead people for every living person,’ he said. ‘I did some research on this several years ago. I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?’
‘And there are?’
‘Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.’”
Obviosuly this would be far too big an undertaking to really happen, but could we make it work remembering the 10 million soldiers that died in WW1? Or perhaps just the British soldiers, although it'd be much better if it was internationally-inclusive.
I feel like this is a bit too big, but maybe it's something that could be started up for the centenary. Just a thought I had that might be worth sharing.
"There are about fourteen dead people for every living person,’ he said. ‘I did some research on this several years ago. I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?’
‘And there are?’
‘Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.’”
Obviosuly this would be far too big an undertaking to really happen, but could we make it work remembering the 10 million soldiers that died in WW1? Or perhaps just the British soldiers, although it'd be much better if it was internationally-inclusive.
I feel like this is a bit too big, but maybe it's something that could be started up for the centenary. Just a thought I had that might be worth sharing.
