Guns have taken away all the honor and nobility of war. Where once it was heroic knights valiantly engaged in hand-to-hand fighting for their King or Queen, now it's just illiterate peasantry shooting each other from hundreds of metres away. No more strong castles and legendary sieges. No more Lords of the Realm on great horses charging headlong into the enemy. No more legendary swords made by master craftsmen. Sigh.
WW1 was still fairly romantic. Just look at all the war poetry it has produced!
And in a way, the war was somewhat similar to love for the soldiers. They enter the battlefield with a sense of glory, honor and duty. They leave with broken bodies and minds if they survived at all, cursing it for what it has done to them.
>>3 They leave with broken bodies and minds if they survived at all, cursing it for what it has done to them.
Like 2%. There are a lot more happy veteran than there are unhappy ones. Vietnam was mainly because they were faggots to begin with and everyone like throwing shit at them and stuff. Also, most came out fine.
I'm not counting the dead obviously, that's always the case.
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War never had romance, you weren't alive back then, put down the King Arthur, please.
War has fun, war has a point, and war has a break from whatever live you normally might have, but there's no "romance".
Where once it was heroic knights valiantly engaged in hand-to-hand fighting for their King or Queen, now it's just illiterate peasantry shooting each other from hundreds of metres away.
Those "illiterate peasantry" are more intelligent than the majority of those savages.
There's no glory in losing an arm or your life. This isn't age of chivalry or cod.
The romance of war is all in retrospect anyway.
I'm sure there's nothing romantic about dying impaled on a stick in the first charge, or of infection from a wound/disease.
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Anonymous2010-04-06 4:24
Well lets admit it, World War II for instance was a real "glorious" war. That's not to say there weren't horrors, but it was right out of the stories of the past. There was actually a crazy fucker who wanted to take over the world, and we needed to push back his army and those of his friends, so we banded together to do so over continent-wide theaters.
Every subsequent was has been a travesty, but that was a viable battle.
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Anonymous2010-04-06 4:37
The Geneva Convention has taken away all the fun and profit from war. Where once it was greedy mercenaries strategically laying waste to towns to sack them and take everything of value, now it's just professional soldiers killing each other while trying to minimize civilian casualties and property damage. No more enslaving children and no more raping women. No more torture of innocent people for fun. No more disregard for human life. Sigh.
War has lost all its Romance
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Anonymous2010-04-06 4:45
War is all about romance and elegance.
It's because nobody else is Willing to put forth the effort that only a few happen to stand out.