300,000 dead in one battle -- WWI. We cannot imagine the horror. Let's remember.
WWI was supposed to be the war to end all wars. American deaths in WWI, an ocean away were as follows:
"To give you an idea of the scope of the horror, the ten month long battle of Verdun (February - December 1916), which resulted in a French victory claimed 300,000 dead on both sides, and 900,000 total casualties. This is nearly 90,000 dead and wounded per month. The Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916 resulted in close to a million casualties. On the first day of the battle, almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed. German losses were over 10,000. The area fought over was approximately the size of Manhattan Island. By contrast, in the entire Second World War (1941045) in the Pacific and Europe, the United States lost approximately 100,000 men killed in action. In ten years of tthe Vietnam conflict, 55,000 Americans lost their lives. This is not to belittle their sacrifice, but simply to illustrate the carnage experienced by the combatants of WWI."
World War 2 Heroes Jean Moulin & The French Resistance Forces in WWII by Ryan Jenkinshttp://www.amazon.com/World-War-Heroes-Resistance-resistance-ebook/dp/B00LNPD3BE
I think this book may have been published in 2014. Sorry. It's on Kindle. I can't tell you the page number. The book is rather short.
From Wikipedia.
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 37 million. There were over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The total number of deaths includes about 10 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 6 million military personnel while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead. This article lists the casualties of the belligerent powers based on official published sources. About two-thirds of military deaths in World War I were in battle, unlike the conflicts that took place in the 19th century when the majority of deaths were due to disease. Nevertheless, disease, including the Spanish flu and deaths while held as prisoners of war, still caused about one third of total military deaths for all belligerents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, which was over 2.5% of the world population. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Never again. When our friends and family speak of war or violence as a solution we must remind them of the great sacrifices that war entails. Never again.
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They shall not pass.
Verdun, 1916.
Whenever I hear about "Cheese eating surrender monkeys" I think of the absolute disrespect shown to the men of Verdun. People don't know shit.
I put casualties into context whenever I compare conflicts. 51% of the nation is mesmerized by the RW media's portrayal of Benghazi. Put into context with the WTC 9/11 or go back further and it takes less than a blip of a mind's two seconds to see how distracted and brainwashed people can be.
To all the veterans, I salute you for your service. 
And I'll continue doing so after your back home and whether or not you're injured. We owe you!
I honestly don't know how humans can call themselves civilized and continue to wage wars. I don't care what justification anyone comes up for it, I will always vehemently disagree. When this country entered into the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it tore my extended family apart. It was my Mother and myself arguing against my siblings and even Mom's pastor!
Rather than being the War to end all Wars, it was the War that gave birth to all the rest of the wars of the 20th century. 
...ah, you know the rest of that depressing-but-true quote. 
Politicians certainly don't, or if they ever studied it, they do not care enough. Politicians and so many of their non-thinking supporters world wide, are lost in the glory of it all.
Passchendaele, 1917
