Josh Benner

Tag: World War I

  • Memorial Day and the importance of remembering

    American Revolution – 25,000 War of 1812 – 15,000 Civil War – 364,511 World War I – 116,516 World War II – 405,399 Korean War – 36,516 Vietnam – 58,209 Afghanistan and Iraq – 6,713 To the hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave their lives in the service and defense of America,…

  • 100th anniversary of the end of World War I: 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

    At this hour, a century ago, the First World War ended. They called it “The War to End All Wars.” But sadly, a generation later, the world would be embroiled in an even bigger, even more deadly, even more catastrophic war. But at the time of World War I, it was something the likes of which the…

  • The death that started a world war: 100 years later

    It’s interesting to look at photos from the beginning of World War I. They look like they could be from the Napoleonic Era. Yet by the end of the war, armies were fighting with airplanes and tanks. The world changed. World War I set the stage for World War II. With the tensions of the…