World War I began on July 28th, 1914 and lasted until November 11th, 1918. Known as the “Great War” that “pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan (World War I). This war introduced new modern warfare technology that resulted in an “unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million Soldiers killed by the end of the war in November of 1918 (World War I). With this many causalities, several families were left in disbelief and wondering how to move on and say goodbye to their loved ones from a war that lasted a little over four years. Memory and Battlefield Tourism gives us a look into the feelings
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To many the battlefields became a spot for tourism, a place to make money on the War. But to those who lost someone in the war these are somber grounds and the final resting place to the soldiers that fought in this war, “close to the wall, in the midst of a group of privates from the Sherwood Foresters who had all died on June 15th, I found his name: “Captain E. H. Brittain, M.C., 11th Notts.” (Brittain, 525-27) Battlefields do not care what rank you are and this shows how in an area where all privates are buried, holds a Captain as well. For Brittain to go to the battlefields of World War I to pay her respect to her brother is the same as we go to Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery to pay our respect to our brothers and sisters that lost their lives on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter if it was World War II, Vietnam War, Korea, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan those who served and those who lost someone always seek confront by going back to the battlefields because that its he one place where others know how we feel and what we went through and that is what we learn from Memory and Battlefield …show more content…
Testament of Youth. 1933. London: Virago, 1978. 525-527
Hunt, Lynn, Thomas Martin, Barbara Rosewein, Bonnie G. Smith. Making of the West Volume II: Since 1500, 4th Edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s 01/2012. VitalSource Bookshelf Online.
World War I. 2016 A&E Television Networks, The History Channel. Retieved on May 15th, 2016 from
To many the battlefields became a spot for tourism, a place to make money on the War. But to those who lost someone in the war these are somber grounds and the final resting place to the soldiers that fought in this war, “close to the wall, in the midst of a group of privates from the Sherwood Foresters who had all died on June 15th, I found his name: “Captain E. H. Brittain, M.C., 11th Notts.” (Brittain, 525-27) Battlefields do not care what rank you are and this shows how in an area where all privates are buried, holds a Captain as well. For Brittain to go to the battlefields of World War I to pay her respect to her brother is the same as we go to Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery to pay our respect to our brothers and sisters that lost their lives on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter if it was World War II, Vietnam War, Korea, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan those who served and those who lost someone always seek confront by going back to the battlefields because that its he one place where others know how we feel and what we went through and that is what we learn from Memory and Battlefield …show more content…
Testament of Youth. 1933. London: Virago, 1978. 525-527
Hunt, Lynn, Thomas Martin, Barbara Rosewein, Bonnie G. Smith. Making of the West Volume II: Since 1500, 4th Edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s 01/2012. VitalSource Bookshelf Online.
World War I. 2016 A&E Television Networks, The History Channel. Retieved on May 15th, 2016 from