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One of the saddest things about the great war was that all the conditions of the surrender were agreed on in mid October and it could have ended then. But, at the insistence of France, the fighting went on for nearly a month with thousands killed or injured for no greater reason that the French penchant for 'les dramatique'. I suspect that, had the Serb who shot Duke Ferdinand survived, they would have sued him for not doing it 7 years earlier so that the war could have been ended in the eleventh year.



Another thing that was sad was that the American commanders launched an offensive on the morning of the armistice, which just meant that a lot of GI's got killed or wounded for no purpose

Too old to die young, too ugly to leave a good looking corpse