We are celebrating the 100 years since the beginning of World War One….and October was a busy month during this horrendous conflict…..

October during World War I, which ended 100 years ago, was, to use a technical term in the history profession, crazy. Here are 10 reasons why:

10. October Revolution (1917). Let’s start with the one nearly every intelligent layman has heard of: the October Revolution in Russia. The October Revolution was, despite its name, merely a continuation in a long struggle for power between Bolshevik socialists and their many enemies in post-Czarist Russia. The details of October are far too dense for this list, but one interesting fact about the October Revolution is that the revolution happened in November according to the Gregorian calendar (which is what most of the world uses today). At the time of the revolution, though, the Russians still used the old Julian calendar, and the events of their power grab happened in October. The Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918, but for some reason the Soviet intelligentsia kept the name “October Revolution.”

https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2018/10/11/10_key_october_world_war_i_events__366.html

This war had everything for a historian…family against family….new weapons of mass destruction…..new weapons of mass killings…..millions upon millions of military dead….millions upon millions of civilian dead….all the greatest hits of any war (sarcasm).

I try to keep Americans interested in learning about a war that should never be forgotten….if only the war dead could talk….maybe war would not be attractive to some leaders….if only…..