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So yesterday was the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War I ended on November 11th

1918 the war to end all wars is what they called it at the time because

Seemed at the time it was the worst thing human beings could ever do to each other and stupid and just so stupid

Fortunately, we could not never make that mistake again. Well, we do actually we didn't honestly world war two is very different

How many Americans died 53,000 battle deaths 63,000 non battle deaths so I

Dispose you add that together

I'm fraught about 110,000 deaths, but listen to this France

1.4 million men died from France fighting in World War I

Imagine a number like that. Wow Germany 1.8 million dead similar with Russia

Great Britain almost a million men died in World War I and we were talking and they're had never been

I mean, we're used to World War II numbers

So those are tiny compared to World War II numbers, but previously in world history

There'd never been anything even close to that right where you have almost two million people dead from one country

Nothing even in the ballpark and all of humanity agreed we must never let this happen again

Because equipment machinery technology had gotten to the point you can kill just too many people

easily right right and

You know, I'll pass up the tangent of how we got to the 30s and World War two world were two, but we were talking about

The armistice on Friday, I guess and how it was on 11 11 at 11 11 in the morning

And then the fighting continued up until the last moment Dave the history teacher weighed in with a little more information

Which I found just fascinating troubling the armistice was not finalized until early that morning

It had been known it was going to happen for a few days

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