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Eclipse - Wired - Review

Mit ihrem letzten Album Paradigm haben Eclipse aus Schweden ja mächtig vorgelegt. Nun steht mit Wired ihr neues Album an, welches am 08. Oktober über Frontiers Music veröffentlicht wird. Uns Schweizern kommt ja dann noch die besondere Ehre zustande, dass Eclipse einen Tag nach Veröffentlichung am 09. Oktober im Z7 in Pratteln ihre einzige!!! Show 2021 spielen werden (Tickets gibt es hier). Die Messlatte für das Album liegt ja gewaltig hoch, war Paradigm doch ihr bisher erfolgreichstes Album in der Karriere. Wired ist mittlerweile auch schon ihr neuntes Album und ich wiederhole mich gerne. Eclipse sind und bleiben meine liebste schwedische Band nach ABBA, deshalb kann es sein, dass diese Review vielleicht ein wenig voreingenommen ist. Aber egal.

Los geht es mit “Roses On Your Grave”, welches auch gut only the good die young heissen könnte. Nur diesen Titel haben schon etliche andere Bands für sich beansprucht, deshalb gut so. Der Einstieg lässt gleich mal etwas Atmosphäre frei, ein feines Riff mit Publikum im Hintergrund lässt einem doch gleich in den Sinn kommen, was wir über die letzten Monate doch schmerzlich vermisst haben, Liveatmosphäre. Roses On Your Grave entwickelt sich dann aber relativ schnell zu einem geilen Up-Tempo Rocker mit allen typischen Trademarks. Also gleich einmal eine Duftmarke abgesetzt und das ist gut so.

Wie habe ich doch Erik’s Stimme vermisst. Die zweite Nummer nennt sich “Dying Breed“. Was hier auffällt, der Bass schmatzt so richtig schön, so prägnant und doch dezent im Mix präsent, gefällt mir dies richtig gut, kein Wunder wenn man selbst Bass spielt. Im Refrain dann ein cooler Offbeat gibt dem Song die richtige Würze, geil. Die nächste Nummer “Saturday Night (Hallelujah)” muss nicht näher vorgestellt werden. Vor 4 Monaten mit einem Video präsentiert ist es sowas wie die Hymne für den Ausgang. Was mir jetzt beim dritten Song auffällt, vor allem der Gesang von Erik ist bei allen drei Songs ähnlich gehalten, was doch ein wenig Eintönigkeit widerspiegelt, was aber jammern auf hohem Niveau ist, denn die Songs sind klar over the top. Aber eine Abwechslung hätte hier gut getan und wie sich später zeigt, hätte der Song der Abwechslung zugute etwas nach hinten platziert werden dürfen.

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“Run For Cover” der nächste Song verursacht ab der Sekunde 20 nur noch Hühnerhaut. Diese keltischen Einflüsse sind hier allgegenwärtig. Zudem kommt hier auch die stimmliche Abwechslung die ich zuvor kritisiert hatte. Zudem nimmt sich Eclipse in den Strophen schön zurück. Der Song ist wieder was für Mitsingspiele der Marke Oho oho oh. Zudem wieder ein Göttersolo von Magnus. An diese Nummer kann ich mich echt nicht satt hören. Für mich das neue Downfall Of Eden. Nach diesen 05:08 Minuten Ohrgasmus braucht es erst einmal ein paar sanftere Töne. Die liefert der Vierer auch gleich mit dem atmosphärisch ruhig gehaltenen “Carved In Stone”. Wunderschöne akustische Gitarre gepaart mit einem wunderbaren Soundteppich fröstelt mich der Song schon fast und mir kommt ein mulmiges, beengendes Gefühl hoch. So als würde ich über einen, passend zum Titel, Friedhof schlendern. Der Song wächst mit zunehmender Spieldauer und entfaltet seine volle Wucht.

Mit “Twilight” kommt dann wieder ein, vor kurzem ausgekoppelter, bekannter Song. Mit massiven Backgroundgesang ausgestattet, wie ich sie von Eclipse bisher noch nicht gewohnt war, hat auch Erik ein paar stimmliche Extravaganzen parat. Gegen den Schluss kommt bei mir sogar ein wenig Weihnachtsstimmung auf, zumindest geht die Melodieführung in diese Richtung. Die nächste Nummer “Poison Inside My Heart”, lässt erst einmal die Gebrüder Crusner pausieren, sie dürfen erst nach knapp einer Minute wieder ihr Fundament unter den Song legen. Was balladesk beginnt überzeugt vor allem mit sensationell arrangierten Background Gesängen. Auch hier wieder dieser genial abgemischte Bass von Victor. Bei einer Nummer wie dieser wünschte ich mir, dass Eclipse auch live einen Keyboarder dabei hätten. Der Song lebt sowas von diesen dezenten Keyboardklängen, dass es eine Schande ist, diese nicht auch live vorzutragen.

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Auf “Bite The Bullet” muss auch nicht mehr näher eingegangen werden. Dieses gewaltige Riffmonster ist an Schwere und Härte fast nicht zu überbieten und wurde ebenfalls mit einem Video beehrt. “We Didn’t Come To Lose” ist vielleicht sowas wie das We Will Rock You der Platte, zumindest zieht Philip’s Spiel in diese Richtung, was ihm live wieder die Stöcke wirbeln lässt. Die ebenfalls massiven Chöre und keltischen Gitarrenlicks von Magnus offenbaren hier einen echten Stadionrocker, der live noch viel mehr zünden wird als auf der Platte. Der alten 80er Jahre Trick, den Schluss noch einen Terz höher zu spielen, tut sein übriges dazu. “Things We Love” lässt mich gleich zu Anfang an Gary Moore zu After The War Zeiten erinnern. Unglaublich welcher Sinn für Melodien die Band immer wieder entwickelt. Auch hier schlägt mein Herz einfach nur höher. Spätestens jetzt kommen mir auch die Gedanken hoch, wie privilegiert ich bin solch ein Meisterwerk bereits Wochen vor der Veröffentlichung hören zu dürfen, danke Frontiers. Leider geht auch die beste Platte einmal zu Ende und so markiert “Dead Inside” den Schluss der CD. Diese Nummer ist auch nur auf der digitalen Version zu finden. Auf Vinyl ist anstelle von Dead Inside der Song “Ain’t No Fun” draufgepresst worden. Damit hat der Sammler also auch gleich was zu tun, wenn er alles haben möchte.

Wo Eclipse drauf steht ist auch Eclipse drin. Wired ist ein sackstarkes Melodic Metal Album geworden mit allen Zutaten die die Vier in der Musikküche gefunden haben. Ich bin mir eigentlich sicher, dass sie damit den Erfolg von Paradigm nochmal toppen werden. Hammer Produktion wie von Erik eh immer gewohnt was will das Rockerherz mehr. Schlimm finde ich jetzt nur, dass ich am 09. Oktober die Band leider nicht live erleben kann. Aber man kann sich leider nicht teilen und die Swiss Rock Cruise ist ja auch hochkarätig besetzt und es wird bestimmt nicht das letzte Eclipse Konzert sein im Rahmen der Tour, die dann hoffentlich stattfinden wird.

Ach so ja, uneingeschränkte Kaufempfehlung ob als CD oder Vinyl

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World War I guns fell silent in 1918

Acceptance of the inevitable. By late 1918, Goetz had recognized that the allies were winning on all fronts. On the obverse he shows a triumphant French rooster atop Allied flags IM SIEGESTAUMEL [In the flush of victory] while a banner on a town hall hails Allied Commander Foch. The depiction of allied troops on the reverse probably would be deemed not politically correct today. (Images © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

Goetz’ commentary on President Wilson’s response to Germany’s peace overtures. Obverse: He sits like a new monarch on a throne but decided to leave all questions of the armistice to the military commanders. Reverse: Germany’s eagle is offered chains and a peace palm in exchange for the kaiser’s crown. The legend reads FRISS ODER STRIB [Eat or die]. (Images © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

Commemorating the abdication of the kaiser on Nov. 9, 1918, and the renunciation of the throne by the crown prince. The new German Weimar Republic came into existence this same day and is portrayed by Goetz as Germania attempting to extinguish the fire in the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling house of Germany. The beast with the burning head combines the body of Germany’s eagle with the head of the Hound of Hohenzollern, which happens to look like Wilhelm II. (Image © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

A seaman from the kaiser’s once beloved Kaiserliche Marine, specifically one of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS “Kaiser,” kicks Wilhelm over a Dutch border marker into a tulip field. Goetz’s legend parodies a quote of the former Kaiser WER SICH MIR ENTGEGENSTELLT, DEN ZERSCHMETTERE ICH! [Who[ever] stands against me, I dash to pieces!]. (Image © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

Large 69 mm, 159.28 g bronze French medal by Georges-Henri Prud’homme marking the signing of the Armistice document in Foch’s rail carriage in the forest of Compiègne at 0500 on 11.11.18. (Images courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

At left, Goetz does not mince words as to WAFFEN STILLSTANDS BEDINGUNG [Conditions of the Armistice]. Uncle Sam and John Bull hogtie Germany while Foch holds a rifle across his throat: FOCH HAT DAS WORT [Foch has the say so now]. (Image © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com) At right, on the lifting of the total blockade of German ports by the Royal Navy on July 12, 1919. The reverse of Goetz’s derisive “Good Samaritan” medal depicts the old, the infirm, and babes-in-arms dying of starvation behind the blockade that is maintained by ships of the Royal Navy. The upper caption reads: ENGLAND’S . SCHANDTAT [England’s deed of shame]. (Image © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

High quality British 64 mm, bronze WELCOME PEACE medal that shows the dates as 1914 / 1919 on the reverse (BHM-4146). George V, King & Emperor, occupies the obverse. (Image courtesy & © www.ha.com)

Obverses of two brass U.S. 1918 WWI peace medals (Hibler-Kappen 896, 897). On both winged Peace bears an olive branch back-lit by the sun of hope that rises above devastated land. The reverses bear a simple legend as to the dates of commencement and ending of the war along with crossed Stars & Stripes beneath. (Images courtesy & © www.ha.com)

Inter-allied Victory bronze medals as awarded to all allied troops. All show variations of a winged victory. All are suspended by a double rainbow ribbon. From left: U.S.A., U.K., France, Japan. (Images courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

The focus of René Baudichon’s 1920 54 mm bronze ULTRIX AMERICA JURIS is ‘Lest we forget.’ The obverse legend freely translates as “America, Avenger of the Law.” It encircles Lady Liberty, who bears not her lamp but a sword. Her rising from the waves drives a tsunami towards Europe. The cause of her fury is shown on the reverse, where the “Lusitania” sinks as a child drowns. (Images courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

A neo-classical French take on the 1918 Armistice and 1919 Treaty of Versailles by Anie Mouroux: bronze 68 mm, 153.76 g. Is that Brunhild on the reverse surrendering her sword hilt-first? (Images courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

After four Christmases in the trenches, Karl Goetz’s 1918 Christmas medal settled for the Gift of Peace. (Image courtesy & © www.ha.com)

Japan also contributed a peace offering. The reverse makes clear it was one of the allies. (Images courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

On her massive 102 mm, 297.8 g bronze medal “WIEDERSEHEN-1918” [Farewell 1918], Danish sculptor Lotte Benter encapsulates what the Armistice meant to the ordinary German soldier: going home to his wife and contemplating his 1918 Christmas tree with his united family – and FRIEDE AUF ERDEN [Peace on Earth]. (Images courtesy & © www.ha.com)

Germania redux! Silvered-bronze medal of 1919 gives a German perspective on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, that effectively ended WWI. The legends read: IN FRIEDEN UND EINIGKEIT DURCH ARBEIT UND LIEBE WILL DEUTSCHLAND WIEDER GEDEIHEN [In peace and unity through labor and love will Germany thrive again] / OMNES RENASCAMUR [We will all be reborn] / EHRE DEN TAPFEREN [Honor the brave] / ?FRIEDE? [?Peace?] / ZUM EWIGEN GEDENKEN [In eternal remembrance]. The question marks either side of peace hold considerable portent. (Images courtesy & © www.ha.com)

Monnaie de Paris evocative designs for their proof silver 10 euro marking the centennial of the WWI armistice. The themes depicted are very much those of French medals struck in the first months after the war. (Images courtesy Monnaie de Paris)

Another French 10 euro.

French 10 euro recalling the jubilation that pervaded all corners of France the day the firing stopped and the surviving troops headed home. (Images courtesy Monnaie de Paris)

Common reverse of Australia’s gold and silver dollars marking the armistice centennial. Flanders’ poppies bloom above abandoned German rounds. (Images courtesy Royal Australian Mint)

Britain’s Royal Mint remembers war poet Wilfred Owen killed one week before the Armistice. (Image courtesy & © The Royal Mint)

A dove soars above bayonets on this Cook Islands $10. (Image courtesy Coin Invest Trust)

Canada reminds us it is all about 11.11.11 on a silver dollar while saluting its fallen on a haunting silver $100. (Images courtesy Royal Canadian Mint)

New Zealand is the one country to have issued a circulating coin for the centenary: a colored 50 cents that ensures the anniversary of Armistice is recognized throughout the land. There is also a gold $10 that recalls the homecoming. (Images courtesy New Zealand Post)

Troops cease fighting and return home on a Niuean silver $10, a gold $100, and a Solomon Islands silver $10. (Images courtesy Downies.)

The massed clenched-fist salute on the reverse of Goetz’s 1918 Armistice bronze foretells a 1939 future: EIN 70 MILLIONEN VOLK LEIDET ABER STIRBT NICHT [70 million people suffer but do not die]. (Image © Henry Scott Goodman, www.KarlGoetz.com)

A Baron Collier postcard, one of a wartime series, depicting Kaiser Bill being welcomed to hell. (Image courtesy Library of Congress)

The word “armistice” baffled me as a child. I gathered it was somehow related to the ending of war but was more problematical than “truce” or “cease-fire,” let alone “peace” or “victory.”

It was many years later I found it was “a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.” Its intent was to allow those parties to sit down for serious peace negotiations.

In later life, I wondered about the origin of the word. I learned it comes from the Latin “arma” [arms] and “sistere” [stop]. For the Germans, the term is “Waffen Stillstands”.

On the Western Front, this stopping of arms would occur in 1918 on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. It effectively ended fighting on land, sea, and air between Germany and the Entente and assorted allies.

The “War To End All Wars” had accounted for over 9.9 million killed in action, 21.2 million wounded in action, and 7.7 million dead civilians. In this context, a host of contemporary medals were struck to mark the cessation of hostilities. These medals fall into several categories: those that specifically commemorate the armistice, those concerned primarily with peace, others that claim victory, and yet others that provide commentary on events surrounding the armistice and its consequences. The last group comes mainly from Germany. Along with sardonic comment, these include some of the more poignant depictions of the bitter consequences of war.

And, of course, coins commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Armistice have been appearing for well over a year.

These medals and coins provide a most challenging collecting area. The number is such that at least two lifetimes are required for a comprehensive or even a fully representative number to be assembled. Space allows only a few reminders of the costs of war to be illustrated here.

Background: By late October 1918, the Entente had signed or was close to signing Armistice agreements with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary. A year earlier, Russia had signed a cease-fire with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. But on the Western Front, the killing continued apace.

It had taken until late September 1918 for Germany’s High Command to admit their country’s position was hopeless. Erster Generalquartiermeister Ludendorff had informed the Imperial Chancellery that an Allied breakthrough was imminent. He demanded an immediate cease-fire and acceptance of the main demands of President Woodrow Wilson.

Today, his motivation is clear. For starters, he wanted to preserve the honor of the German army by laying responsibility for capitulation squarely in the laps of the politicians. Secondly he realized that Wilson’s Fourteen Points were sufficiently vague to allow Germany to extract itself from the fray with minimum pain.

Changes: In October, the German government made overtures for an Armistice along lines proposed by Ludendorff. However, France, Italy, and Britain had no interest in such negotiations, nor did Wilson’s Fourteen Points hold any appeal for them. They had fought for over four years and lost millions of young men. They knew Germany was shattered. They wanted their pound of flesh and numerous quarts of blood as well.

A major stumbling block quickly emerged: the Allies insisted on the abdication of the kaiser. Germany might have been desperate, but at this point its government was not prepared to swallow this particular dead rat.

In fact, Ludendorff abruptly declared the Allied conditions unacceptable and demanded a full resumption of the war. However, his German soldiers had had enough. They were no longer prepared to fight. Desertions became commonplace. On Oct. 26, Ludendorff was replaced, and he fled to Sweden.

A naval revolt took place at Wilhelmshaven. It spread rapidly across the country. The realization that Germany was beaten had shaken Kaiser Wilhelm, but the mutiny of his beloved Kaiserliche Marine was the last straw. On Nov. 9, he abdicated, and a German republic was proclaimed. On Nov. 10, the ex-kaiser went into exile in neutral Netherlands.

Total capitulation: A Social Democrat party took the reins of political power. It engaged in desperate and hurried armistice negotiations. These took place in Foch’s private train parked in the French forest of Compiègne. When the German delegation arrived, they were given 72 hours to agree to a list of demands presented by Allied officers.

These demands were largely written by Allied Supreme Commander Maréchal Ferdinand Foch. They included immediate cessation of hostilities, withdrawal of German forces to positions behind the Rhine, Allied occupation of the Rhineland, the complete demilitarization of Germany including surrender of all military materials, the release of all Allied prisoners of war and interned civilians, and eventual reparations. Reparations were to become such a financial millstone that they poisoned international relations for many years afterwards.

On the Allied side, there was to be no release of German prisoners and no relaxation of the naval blockade of Germany until complete peace terms were agreed.

There was no question of negotiation. In effect, the Allies required the unqualified and total capitulation of Germany.

The new German Chancellor did not hesitate. On Nov. 10, he instructed the head of the German delegation to sign. They did so at 5 a.m. on Nov. 11. The cease-fire was to occur six hours later.

It would take another year before the final peace terms were hammered out. Three extensions to the original document were required before the Treaty of Versailles was finally ratified on Jan. 10, 1920.

A final reckoning: On Nov. 11, both sides knew the fighting was about to end. However, both maintained pressure to the last second. Each continued to fire at the other. In those six hours of that last day, there were a further 10,944 casualties. Of these, 2,738 died.

Battery 4 of the U.S. Navy’s long-range 14-inch railway guns fired its last shot at 10:57:30 a.m. from the Verdun area. It was timed to land behind the German front just before the scheduled Armistice.

The last British soldier died about 9:30 a.m., the last Frenchman at 10:50 a.m., and the last British Imperial soldier, a Canadian, was shot at 10:58 a.m. The last soldier killed in World War I was an American at 10:59 a.m.

May they rest in peace.

Commemorative medals: All participants in the conflict produced some sort of medallic memento. Some were official, but there were many unofficial private issues. Some are of superb quality and charged with pathos. Among these are personal commentaries from leading sculptors. Others are crude in their execution, but all commemorate a major historical event.

Initially, most focused on the blessed peace that had followed the end of the killing. A few made specific reference to the Armistice. Many French medals expressed unqualified gratitude to the Allied soldiers who fought and died for their country.

Within months, however, that peace and gratitude had transmuted to victory celebrations. It was no longer simply a question of an armistice. The Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and the Ottomans were seen as utterly defeated. Given the uncompromising nature of the cease-fire terms, they could be perceived as little else.

A common award to all Allied soldiers was proposed by Maréchal Foch. Each nation was free to design its own, but the shared theme was a winged Victory struck on a 36mm bronze round and suspended by a double rainbow ribbon. The award became known as the Inter-Allied Victory Medal, with at least 15 countries producing their own versions.

The back commonly carried a potent piece of propaganda: THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION 1914-19. (The 1919 date refers to involvement of Allied troops in the Russian Civil War.) The back of the U.S. medal displays a bound fasces with the names of Allied countries listed on either side: FRANCE, ITALY, SERBIA, JAPAN, GREAT BRITAIN, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, PORTUGAL, RUMANIA and CHINA.

Some medals struck in the years after the war and even after the signing of the Versailles Treaty neither forgave nor forgot. French sculptor René Baudichon’s bronze ULTRIX AMERICA JURIS is a case in point. Struck in 1920, it portrays a vengeful Lady Liberty rising from the Atlantic Ocean. The cause of her wrath is clear on the medal’s back: the torpedoed Lusitania sinks while a baby drowns.

Germany’s medalists had little to celebrate or even commemorate. Their country was wrecked; their political system, economy, and agriculture were in ruins; its former leaders had fled. Germans would continue to be denied basic supplies by the Allied Blockade for eight months following the Armistice. Tens of thousands would starve.

As a consequence, many German medalists sought their subjects in simple yet vital matters such as wife and children being reunited with husband and father.

Goetz’s 1918 Christmas medallion opts for the reality of peace. Danish sculptor Lotte Benter’s massive bronze “WIEDERSEHEN-1918” [Farewell 1918] is more poignant: an ordinary German soldier returning to his wife, his family united around a 1918 Christmas tree with FRIEDE AUF ERDEN [Peace on Earth]. It really says it all.

Goetz medals aside, it would be some years before Germany’s spirit would reassert itself in political medallic statements.

Centennial Coins: For over a year, mints and nations around the world have been issuing coins to mark the 100 years that have elapsed since the Great War ended. Many echo themes seen on medals from 100 years earlier. Some refer to the Armistice itself, others to Peace, while yet others salute the return of the soldiers. Victory gets scant mention.

Of all the coins marking the end of the conflict, those issued by France stand out. Their designs focus on the immediacy of the feelings that swept the entire country on the afternoon of Nov. 11, 1918.

For the French, the end of La grande Guerre was a profoundly emotional national experience. For over four years, great swathes of the country had been laid waste to provide battlegrounds for the Western Front. Towns and villages had been devastated. Some 1.4 million French soldiers and 300,000 civilians lay dead. A further 4.3 million had been wounded.

Words are inadequate to describe the response of the French that Nov. 11. But it is all there in the coin deigns. And in capturing this moment, the designers at Monnaie de Paris have not overlooked their allies. The flags of Britain, America, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia wave alongside the Tricolor.

The centenary is marked primarily with two matched coin pairs. Each consists of a .900 fine silver (37.00 mm, 22.20 g) 10 euro and a .999 fine gold (22.00 mm, 7.780 g) 50 euro. Symbolic poppies and cornflowers are prominent in the designs, “Le bleuet” (the cornflower) being France’s national symbol of remembrance.

On one, the sun rises for Armistice Day, a bugler sounds the cease-fire, and soldiers discard their rifles while a signaler releases an allegorical dove. The second depicts jubilant crowds welcoming “Le Poilu” [The Unshaven]. This is the coin that acknowledges the vital role of the Allied troops in France’s liberation – on both obverse and reverse.

A bugler sounding the recall before the Arc de Triomphe features on the second 10 euro but struck on a 31.00 mm, 17.00 g .333 fine silver flan. His uniform is decked with the flags of the allied nations. In the background, a returning soldier embraces his child. Oddly, the reverse makes reference to matters 100 years on: linked oak and laurel branches evoke the euro sign.

As would be expected, numerous coins have come from the countries of the former British Empire who contributed 1.1 million killed and 2 million wounded.

The Royal Australian Mint was one of those quick on the mark. In February, it announced a commemorative 25.00 mm, 9.00 g aluminum bronze dollar available in both 2018 proof and BU coin sets. In March, the corresponding precious metal proofs were produced: a 21.69 mm, 1/4 oz .9999 fine gold $25; a 99.95 mm, .999 fine 1 kg silver $30; and a 40 mm, 1 oz .999 fine silver $1.

The reverse design by Aleksandra Stokic depicts poppies of Flanders Fields growing in soil deep sown by serried rows of bullets. The outline of each bullet caused comment Down Under on these coins’ release. It is not that of the British .303 but resembles the rimless German 7.92 X 57 cartridge widely used in WWI although, for the pedants among us, the profile differs in detail.

It may well be the designer’s intent was to depict the primary cause of so many grave markers of Australian Imperial Forces whether at Gallipoli or on the Western Front.

Britain’s Royal Mint also believed in getting in early. They issued a BU bimetallic £2 in January. Its design by Stephen Raw is highly evocative. The artist shaped his work using clay from the Sambre-Oise Canal, where war poet Wilfred Owen was killed in 1918 one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice. It bears an inscription taken from Owen’s poem, “Strange Meeting”: “The truth untold, The pity of war.”

The same design is used on a 28.40 mm, 12.00 g .925 fine silver £2 proof; a 28.40 mm, 24 g .925 fine silver £2 proof piedfort plated with gold; and a 28.40 mm, 15.97 g .917 fine yellow gold £2 plated with red gold. All three coins are edge inscribed WILFRED OWEN KILLED IN ACTION 4 NOV 1918.

In addition, the BRM has produced two 5 oz £10 proof coins: a 65.00 mm, 156.30 g .999 fine silver and a 50.00 mm, 156.30 g .9999 fine gold. These are the last coins in the mint’s WWI Centenary 5 oz series. Their common reverse by Paul Day depicts a lone solider on the Western Front at the moment the guns cease fire.

Royal Canadian Mint designer Jamie Desrochers leaves no doubt that it is all about the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The numeral “11” appears three times on the reverse of his 36.06 mm, 23.17 g .9999 fine silver dollar backed by a sunburst of hope. The central “11” is writ large and selectively gold-plated. Its profile echoes Canada’s National Vimy Memorial in France.

A second Canadian coin remembers the fallen: a 76.25 mm, 311.54 g .9999 fine silver $100 proof. On the reverse, artist Pandora Young has incorporated one of Coeur de Lion MacCarthy’s “Angel of Victory” sculptures that stand today in Montreal, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. The ascending angel holds a fallen Canadian soldier in one arm and a laurel wreath in her left. The two are framed by W.H.J. Blakemore’s design of Canada’s one-cent coin issued during 1914-1918. Appropriately, the obverse shows Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal’s contemporary effigy of King George V.

From the Cook Islands, courtesy of CIT, is an 11 mm, 1/100 oz .9999 fine gold prooflike $5. Its emphasis is the peace. The accompanying web page provides no description beyond the words of John McCrae’s 1915 poem, “In Flanders Fields.”

The tiny Pacific Island of Niue is responsible for two colored silver and gold coins whose themes mark the end of the war. These include a 65 mm, 155.5175 g (5 oz) .999 fine silver $10 proof showing a bugler sounding the cease-fire and a 38.61 mm, 1 oz .9999 fine gold $100 proof depicting troops marching back from the front in the aftermath of the Armistice. The last coin was part of a WWI set released in early 2017.

In a similar vein is a Solomon Islands 40 mm, 25 g .925 fine silver $10 proof with members of the armed services marching in a victory parade. This coin appears to be the only Armistice centenary issue that gives a nod to the nurses of WWI – the troops’ angels of mercy.

New Zealand is the sole country to produce a circulating coin for the centenary: a colorized 24.75 mm, 5.00 g plated steel 50 cents released into circulation on Oct. 1. Central to the reverse design is the New Zealand Returned Services Association red poppy surrounded by a wreath formed from three of New Zealand’s silver fern leaves (past, present, future / Army, Navy, Air Force), rosemary for remembrance, and koru (Maori stylized fern fronds).

Rosemary holds deep significance for New Zealand soldiers. It grew wild across the Gallipoli peninsula where 2,779 New Zealanders died in 1915, a sixth of the Kiwi troops who landed on the peninsula.

A second New Zealand coin is a 21.69 mm, 1/4 oz .9999 fine gold $10 entitled “Back from the Brink” that depicts a returned soldier in the arms of his tearful beloved. This coin comes in a pressed metal tin resembling those gifted to soldiers in World War I by Princess Mary at Christmas.

Afterword: Historians among readers will be well aware that Foch’s 1918 Armistice demands, along with those in the Versailles Treaty of 1920, sowed seeds of deep resentment in the German soil that would sprout full-grown on Sept. 1, 1939. The reverse of Goetz’s 1918 Armistice medal foretells that future all too clearly: EIN 70 MILLIONEN VOLK LEIDET ABER STIRBT NICHT [70 million people suffer but do not die].

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finalmisumderstandings-blog · 7 years ago

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my whole life i feel like ive sent an intentionto destroy it. i find things i s houldnt worry or think about. i find reasons why i shouldnt be happy or enjoy myself. i spend allmy time in the present thinking about how muchbetter the past was. im layinghere and thinking to myself “what the fuck”. just what the fuck is goingon whith my life. i feel like im dying but im young and alive and this is the worse life i could imaging having for myself but dear god i dont try to make it better.i think i sugar coat evething in hopes i will deep down understand how importantit is to change. but i never do. i was never happier than ive been than in virginia and now i have no where i want to go to college, i dont reallyhave any friends or see anyone. but this is all my doing. i dont have cole anymoreand now im realzing how lonely i am without him. i miss seeing him and hearing his voice. iw ant to hear about his day and the stories he tellsme and his fun facts. he was such a huge part of me and now hes gone. i feel unbalancedand unsureof everything now without him. he lovedme so much it helped me keep going. it gaveme a reason to go. he could be considered my “reasoning” voice. fuck, why do i still love him from afar. deep down i know right now its not right for either of us i just wish there was a bend in our dimension where i could go back to the first day i met him and do it all over again. iw ish i could everything in my life all over again. i hate the decisions i made. i made horrible decisions based off what i think i wanted, or what i think my future self would want wihtout actually taking into account what i really value and enjoy. what i really want.my fuking stupid poorly thoughtout actions have fuckign out my life at a crossroad with everything i have attempted to avoid. it was all for nothing. me being strict onmyself for drugs and food and working out can go down the drain. all the effeort i ever put into my hair and skin. and my fucking clothes. i have turned into someone i have never wanted to be, its hard for me to shower now and brush my hair. i dont know who i am becoming. im so ashamed, i always felt ike i was a seond character to my own life. i never saw what was imoirtant or valuable in me. i do feel like im less then everyone i know. that that is my place insociety to be one less than people so they know whos better.

god, i wish i was back in virginia. id give anything to be back in my old apartment no matter how badly it smelt and how gross the bathroom was. i wish iw as ther in my room with cole. i wish i could go back to those nights we spent together. god i really fuckingmiss him. i dont even know how to act around people anymore. its like moving back home made me a whole new person. i need to get out of ehre. i need to form and excaoe because im dying being here. i dont belong here anymore.

but hten again back in va i thoguht i belonged here andnow here i think i belong in virginia. and in cali i thought i belonged in wa and to say the elast i dont know where in the hell i belong, i dont know how to settle with myself, i aways have to find a reason why i cant be happy or why i cant enjoy where i am. or why it wont work out or why i should just give up now or think that i would be so muchbetter somewhere else. i stunted my own growth, why did i stop myself. i dontknow if im supposed to think back in the past and try to rememeber how i wa and how i used to think and work from there or if i scartch that person entirrly because i wasnt all that content and happy either in that moment,

it just hurts seeing eberyone do ing better and me and i assuming that im smart so i mustbe dumber than most people. i dont know why i hold onto pain so tightly.i dontknow why i dont want to grow. i dont know why i make things so much harder for myself. this voice in my head, my thoughts or the narrator, shes so mean. its like i “snap “ myself back to “reality” when really its just a dose of negetivity that ruins everything for me. its like this loud annoying ass voice that will just cut through the sweetest moments with “what ifs” and “youre not’s”. theres so much i wish i could have done differently. iwish my mom would have stayed in la. i wish i would have stayed at NOVA. i wish i never got the apartment, or atleast never started working at dave and busters. i wish i NEVER started serving and i would have stayed working at starbucks, i wish i would have engaded more with the poeple around me. i wish i had never done any drugs and never started to smoke. im fat now, i am really fat. i lovedmy body when i first got here, isnt that all thatmatters. ive gained 20lbs. nearly. thers so much wiehging on top of me right now and i feel like is denting me, like after all that life has dealy me and what ive caused for myself i willcome out of this dented.

its just hard because i do feel like i loser. i am ashamed of myself and i dont see my life in a new oerspective. everything is connected, everything is dependentof each other and im tired of it.im tired of shit connecting, im tired of things having a meaning. im tired of everyday being so fucking important. im tired im tired im tired imt tirdeslfnk.sjnvd.

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bolbiistroganovsky · 7 years ago

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this is gonna sound crazy cause my little sister is only 12, but i honest to god dont think i can continue living under the same roof as her for my own personal health. like she is just so horrible to me and there is nothing i can do about it because everytime ive tried to fight back or demand i be treated better i become the “bad guy” and am “overreacting” because im supposed to be older and be the bigger person. but im so tired of having to be the bigger person. i really dont think the way she treats me is normal sibling stuff either. thats why no one ever takes me seriously. they just say its normal sibling stuff but its not. its not just small arguments over who gets the TV or a borrowed sweater. shes just routinely rude and mean and judgemental. like ill do anything just being silly having fun and shell make the most judgemental face and cross her arms. or like today, we had an early thanksgiving and all day she was just making jokes about me being ugly even though its clear to anyone with eyes that im insecure about my appearance and like she just brushes it off as just jokes.i finally was sick of it so i told her point blank that i dont think those jokes are funny and they just ake her seem like a mean person and then i walked off and went to practice harp. then like two minutes later she barges in and starts yelling at me for overreacting, hits my harp, then storms off. and its a cycle. shell do something like that then an hour later shell come hug me and be really sweet and apologize and say all these nice things and then nothing changes and it happens again a day or two later. today actually the cycle happened twice in one day which i think is a new record. and its like, at this point id rather her just not apologize cause theyre clearly empty words. ive taken to saying “thank you for apologizing” very blankly and not saying anything else instead of “its ok” or “i forgive you” because i dont forgive her. er i think i forgive her which is why i keep getting hurt but i also know that itll happen again and i know that this apology ultimately means nothing so why tell her i forgive her when in practicality i dont? and i know sometimes i can be mean to her but not in the repeated antagonistic way she is. when im “mean” to her its like ill take the front seat even if she calls shotgun or ill say something like...honestly i cant even remember. i tried to think of something fairly recent and i cant recall a time where i started a fight by saying something mean. and whenever tried to talk to her about the clear issues we have she always uses those few and far between things to justify everything she does to me. and my parents do it to. and ive always felt like thats just wrong that i am the primary victim but ive always chalked that up to bias. no one ever htinks theyre in the wrong, but now i feel justified in thinking im not in the wrong in these situations because i know that i dont antagonize her the way she antagonizes me. i dont push on her sore spots like bruises. shes always talking about how she has mroe friends than me, how shes the favorite, how shes mroe athletic than me, how shes better than me in every concievable way and i know i have neverintentionally pushed at her insecurities. and i know this because in the moment ive thought of what i could say that could make her hurt as bad as i do and i never say it partly because i know its wrong to say things like that, and partly because i know that if did i would be treated like the villain even though ive been putting up with this ever since she could talk. its not like shes always been verbally horrible to me, but before shed be selfish with toys or shed intentionally ruin something i was doing and thats what would get to elementary school and middle school me, but now what gets me is when she intentionally pushes at my insecurities and then thinks all fine and dandy because she was “joking”. and i just cant stick up for myself. I honestly cant wait to graduate and leave. i love my family anf my school so much but she is the sole reason i want to leave. and like i really honestly hate her. i do not like her at all but i also still love her because she is still my sister. and it kind of sucks. i wish i could just not care about her at all and just be like “you know what? fuck you” and be done with it. but i cant because stupid ass me doesnt want to hurt anybody’s feelings. sometimes ive thought like what if i killed myslef and wrote a note about how i did it because i couldnt take living with her cruelty anymore? i dont actually want to die or kill myself because i love all parts of my life but her, but it feels like it would finally show everyone how horrible she actually is. like id be able to feel vindicated from the grave that everyone finally saw that i wasnt just being dramatic she actually was horrible to me. sometimes ill accidentally picture a family member dying and ill feel sad and ill tear up and think how much itd hurt but when i do it witih her, i feel like a terrible person admitting this, but i dont think id be that sad. id feel a little bit sad but id also feel relieved that id never have to deal with ehr again. but im also worried about her. like she has problems keeping friends and my mom always comforts her and tells her that sometimes things are meant to be and my sister will tell how the other girl is being snooty or mean and my mom drinks it up that my sister is the victim, but i cant help but think that she cant keep friends because she subconsciously treats them similarly to how she treats me, or that she attracts a similar kind of mean person like she is to be friends with. and i dont want that for her, i want her to be able to have friend and be nice. i want her to learn how to be a good person cause i know she can, but its like she cant learn she cant understand that what shes doing is wrong. and i feel conflicted becuase i wantto help her be better and i want to support her like a good big sister, but i also want to fight back and cut her out of my life. but i also feel bad cause like am i overreaecting after all? cause how could a 12 year old be this horrible to me? people always tell me shell grow out of it. they told me that when i was 7 and she was 3 and they told me that today and she hasnt. and im tired of waiting for her to grow up. i just want to be done with this. it feels like my instinct to stand up for myself and fight back is fighting my instinct to be a good sister. i also feel ashamed that i let my little sister get to me this badly. like im older and bigger and stronger and more experienced. i should be the one with the power. but for some reason i just cant. like i feel ridiculous for feeling like im being take nadvantage of by a 12 year old but its happening. i cant keep doing this anymore. im so sick of it. i just wish i could leave and never come back. everyone has always told me that well be best friends when were adults but ive always known that that wont be true. but now it doesnt even feel like we have enough of a relationship to even be regular friends after i leave home. i mean maybe thats a bit dramatic writing off our entire lives even though shes only twelve but i dont even think i would want to try and have a relationship with her even if i could in the future. it sjust too ddraining being aroudn her. its been too draining for nearly ten years and i just dont see that stopping. im just tired. she makes me tired. of being around her of living in this house of just living tbh. ughhhhhhhhhh. i think this is the worst its ever been.

sorry this is such a long ass post. i could probably say more but i wont. im just tired of bottling it all up. i talked with my stepmom about it and she agrees. she says she understands that its not me and she told my sister that shes potentially jeopardizing our relationship in the future. and its such a breath of fresh air to have someone understand that its not me. she thinks we should go to counseling which we probably should. god ive gone to so much counseling whats wrong with me. anyways heres your sob story for the day. sorry

#long post #ii just have a lot of shit I'm dealing with rn #god i feel like such a prick for having my twelve year old sister be the worst part of my life but she honestly is #i can't stand living like this anymore

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