#animals in war

[virtie333]

[jeff-rees-jones]

Today in the UK it's 'poppy day' or memorial day when we remember the millions of soldiers who died in the 1914-18 war, now known as the first World war. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of November everything comes to a standstill for a one minute silnece.

I took part in a service and spoke on behalf of the conscripted animals...

They were with the British Expeditionary Forces from the very start.

They were with the British Expeditionary Forces at the very end.

They served at the Front, in the rear and in the support lines.

They stumbled through the hell of no-man's land, closely following every British and Commonwealth push.

In the mud, rain and terror of the trenches they supplied their comrades with food, water and ammunition, even though they themselves were starved, soaked and exhausted.

In each year of the war they died in their hundreds of thousands.

They were the war horses.

The light draught horse and mule played a role that is often overlooked by commentators and historians of the Western Front, but without them the ability of the British Army to cross Europe would have been almost impossible.

Taken from the fields, cities, factories and coal-pits of Britain and from the rolling plains of America and Canada, the light draught horse was press-ganged and shipped off to a terrible world just as unfamiliar to them as it was for their conscripted human counterparts.

The light draught horse and mule, however, went on to prove their worth time and time again, indeed, their numbers with the British Expeditionary Forces in France alone rose from 25,000 to over 475,000 by the autumn of 1918. On all fronts a staggering one million plus horses and mules were listed in service with British and Commonwealth forces by the close of war.

On the Western Front over 256,000 horses and mules had already died.

In December 1918, the victorious British Army marched in parade ground order over the Rhine into Cologne, and fittingly, their horses and mules were there too.

These animals that remained in the British Army's service were the fittest and the best available.

But for all their help and heroism, the 'standard' and 'poor quality' animals were either auctioned off at rock-bottom prices or sold... to French butchers.

Every November 11th, those who care, remember the great sacrifice of the men and women who fell, were maimed or participated in what has become known as the Great War.

90 years after the war ended a monument was finally placed in london's Park lane to honour all of the animals who took part and lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of pigeons and dogs too and of course the eight million horses and countless mules and donkeys, we remember them. x

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[saintfaux]

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[spectra-bear]

Sometimes something simple could be really special, after all.

[i-am-aprl]

For 153 days, we’ve seen Palestinians taking care of not only fellow humans by sharing food with each other, helping save people from under the rubble, carrying random bloody strangers to hospitals, and lending a helping hand at any given, but we’ve also seen them, constantly, taking care of animals during the genocide.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

[ahhrenata]

he’s the reason i fell in love with Star Wars.

slightly animated version on instagram :)

[dystopiansewerrat]

they’re all weird(affectionately<3)

[celestialcreativity]

Finally the sequel to “I miss my wife William!” Now with COLOR!! :D🌈✨

Honestly this one was SUCH a blast to make! 🤣 And I hope y’all enjoy this one as much I did! 🤗❤️

[skelly-chan]

Drawing a Vocaloid song everyday for 100 days Challenge

Day 5: love is war

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

Spy x family is very very good because there's a bit where a far right terrorist group says that they want to start a war and a main character responds by saying to them "have any of you ever killed anyone before? Have you ever been killed before? Have you ever had a limb torn off by an artillery shell? Have you ever heard the sound of bones shattering? Have you ever smelled the reek of rotting flesh? Have you ever found the crushed bodies of your parents and siblings in a pile of rubble that used to be your home? Have you ever discovered a blown-off piece of your lover stuck to a wall? Have you ever been so hungry that you tried to eat tree bark? Or stewed a pot of human flesh? Have you ever convinced yourself that your enemy was subhuman so you could...slaughter them like animals? Have you ever been so haunted by shame and regret afterwards that you cried until you vomited? Have you ever had friends who did the same, and then took their own lives? Did you learn nothing about war at your university?!"

and that's the same volume where they adopt a dog that can see into the future

[nina-s0]

"Don't read the same book twice, and expect a different ending."

Fuck off that's what fanfiction is for tf.

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I’m just saying if they did make Muppets The Iliad, they couldn’t actually depict Achilles mowing Hector down and spearing him through the throat so instead how this would look is Animal dragging a very much alive Pepe the Prawn around in circles and laughing maniacally while an uncomfortable Kermit looks at the camera and does that face where the hand inside him clenches a little.

[salmonpiffy]

Damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing