66th Anniversary of World War II

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Just thought I'd post up to commemorate this day.

Technically it all kicked off on the 1st, when Germany invaded Poland, but it only escalated into World War when, on the 3rd September 1939, the UK, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany.
 
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I must say I hated learning about WW2 in school. I just though they could have made it so much more appealing. Don't get me wrong, war shouldn't be appealing, but most boys don't want to learn all about the politics we want to learn about the weapons.

(Most my Yr6 WW2 project was filled with info on tanks and planes :D Instead of the 'HomeFront' :)
 
Well I learned about the war in summer school so it went by really fast. Anyways my teacher was really cool and he thought war fun to learn about, but also he wanted us to know the amount of people who died. And he taught about the politics of it all in a humourous way so it never got real boring.

plus he told us about the time where he was drafted into the army in france and how he did everything he could to get out of doing service.(he's anti-war) Anyways after a while he just gave up and try to enjoy the last little while with his friends. So they go out for a drink with his friends and when he's leaving to get his car he runs into a guy. He apoligizes for running into him, but the guy gets pissed. Well it seems my teacher didn't run into the guy, instead the setup my teacher and had friends along to beat him up. So my teacher takes a beating,while still drunk as hell, but then his friends run in and a brawl starts.

Well the next day, his head is killing him and he's covered in bruises. So he calls a war docter and the docter tells him to go to the main camp hospital to get a full checkup. My teacher asks if this injury could get him out of doing service. The docter says highly unlikely.

so my teacher goes to the hospital and while waiting outside he starts talking to a guy who is there for the same reason , to try to get out of service. So anyways the guy offers him some weed which is hidden his book, my teacher accepts, being a hippy kinda a guy. And in turn this gets my teacher really high. And when he goes in to get his checkup, he's sweating with all these bruises and he's dizzy. The docter is really considering not taking him into the army. And then my teacher starts pushing it further by saying he's got a family and everything, while he's only 19 at the time. hehe I thought it was funny.
 
I just hope we'll never see a war of this scale again. Very tragic war. :indiff:
 
I probably thought learning about WWII in school was pretty boring. But now I think it's interesting. Although it is so tragic. If there ever is a 3rd World War, probably a 3rd of the people on earth will be gone. Okay maybe a little exaggurated but....
 
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