What Eddie Rickenbacker Saw on November 11, 1918
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13
I see nothing in that verse about laying down one’s life for idiot generals and politicians. No wonder they were dancing.
The Allies had won and had reason to dance.
It is a canard that most of the World War I Generals were idiots. They were men thrown into a maelstrom when technology was changing rapidly and usually they did the best they could. By the end of the War trench warfare had been overcome with new technology: tanks, flamethrowers, better radios, etc, and new techniques: German stormtroop tactics, centralized control of artillery, using trucks to shift forces rapidly, etc. It was a bloody school, but the art of war advanced greatly during the Great War.