What historical event fascinates you the most?

[Runwildboys]

And part of the luck factor.

Exactly why I posted it.

 

[YosemiteSam]

While in the military a few buddies and I would spend hours playing a board game about WWII called Axies and Allies....great game. Have not played it since I left the military.

My dad, uncle and one of my brothers and I used to play Axis and Allies every weekend. That was an awesome game.

I remember several years later, my brother bought a newer version of it and it had changed dramatically and then also introduced new games that had similar game play, but where different subject matter. (I believe one was based well into the future)

 

[CouchCoach]

The Holocaust and the Civil War.

The same forces that were at play at the beginning of each event unfortunately are becoming more prevalent in our society today. We appear to have forgotten the past and/or never learned from it. I'm concerned for my country.

Well, you know the saying about those that fail to learn from the mistakes in history are doomed to repeat them. A lot like the definition of insanity, isn't it?

I saw some interesting information about some research polls, if you buy into that sort of thing, that the confidence in the future of the US and world is at an all time low. Even during the Depression and wars, people are more down than ever now.

I don't think the end is near but I do believe I know how it will come. It won't be world war, nuclear war or an asteroid pile driving into the earth. It will be by what was here before us and will outlast us, microbes and viruses. Just look at the mutations just in the last 20 years and officials in WHO and the CDC know it's coming. They've already encountered the superbug, impervious to antibiotics. New insect borne viruses are showing up and they can only treat symptoms and they just discovered a new one from tick bites, allergic to all meat products and probably dairy as well for the rest of their lives.

Human evolution moves like a glacier. Microbe and virus evolution moves like lightning in comparison and isn't it strange that their evolution is all about getting rid of higher forms of life? We watch Ebola surface in Africa again and yawn and WHO goes into a mild panic for they know what could happen if that reached other countries. A young boy gets the plague in Idaho last week, the plague!

Yep, the enemy that will do us in cannot be seen by the naked eye and with all of our progress, all we have done is make it easier for them.

 

[CouchCoach]

Exactly why I posted it.

And speaking of luck, and I was, one of my buds growing up had a father that was a bona fide war hero. Credited with saving over 50 men on 2 separate occasions and like most vets, he didn't talk about it but his wife did one afternoon when I was around 16.

I had been pulled over for speeding, 65 in a 35, and his Dad, Harold, went ballistic when he found out his son have been riding shotgun and laid into me, verbally, like I'd never been by anyone in my life. I was really upset because I liked him a lot and was really hurt by his words like careless, stupid, irresponsible just to name a few but he was right, I was responsible for another's life in that car.

She saw I was upset and had my bud come get me to come talk to her. That's when she told us Harold's story because my bud was made at his Dad for treating me that way.

Harold landed on Omaha beach and as he was exiting the landing craft, the guy on each side of him got shot right in the head. While on the beach, the guy next to him was shot at least a dozen times and he had not a scratch. He lost every friend he had except his best one who lost the lower half of both legs.

He kept asking himself why, why not me? Why were all these guys getting shot around him but not him? He gave up on luck, no one is that lucky and he settled on a religious answer, God was saving him for something. That's why he charged a machine gun nest single-handedly and a tank and blew it up, this was his purpose. He was awarded every medal a living soldier could get except the Purple Heart, he never got a scratch Luck? Divine intervention? I don't know but I never forgot that talk with her or put his son in harm's way again.

The concept of luck has always mystified and puzzled me. It plays into the outcome of so many things in life.

 

[blindzebra]

True but Hollywood has been in love with WWII and only gave a passing glance to WWI. There are more movies about Desert Storm than WWI and whether we like it or not, that's the type country we live in. We pay attention to what they show us and do not investigate enough on our own.

To be fair, movies were not a huge part of society during WWI. It was a huge thing by the time WWII happened and was used as a propaganda tool. That became ingrained in our society and we saw it during Vietnam both pro (The Green Berets) and anti (M*A*S*H).

 

[Ranched]

The Resurrection and all the witnesses ("believers and non believers) in following weeks.

btw
Not here for some sort of religious debate--and it's not allowed anyway.
But the thread asked, so I answered.

....And I'm With You 110% On That One Toots. !Salud

 

[Reverend Conehead]

There's so many, but the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III has always fascinated me.

 

[aria]

Awesome thread, being a history major I have a very hard time narrowing it down to one so I’m gonna cheat and name a few. I’m a pretty avid reader and would probably be a “guru” on certain subjects if I even remembered 5% of what I read.

Anyways, I majored in Russian history, great stuff but my personal favorite areas of interest are Native Americans and the American West, the Civil War and WWII.

The number one historical subject I’d like to know more about and have barely touched is the formation and study of different religeons and how they have spread over time. All religions started off in a specific, small, geographical location, some are world wide and some are still in that same location. Without trying to break any rules, religeon has sooooo much to do with how the world is today and why it has evolved the way it has. It’s powerful and fascinating stuff.

 

[Hardline]

I've really gotten into studying the Crusades
https://www.history.com/topics/crusades


Brief facts of the crusades

1095-1291
Muslims and Christians over who wanted to control Jerusalem
10 crusades

1st crusade
1095 the Seljuk Turks invaded and captured Jerusalem
Christians marched to Palestine (1000 soilders died while marching)
1099 Christians took Jerusalem

2nd crusade
50 Years later Muslims attacked Palestine
French and Germans joined to help defeat Muslims
Muslims defeated and took back Jerusalem

3rd crusade
In 1187 Saladin ( Muslim leader) TOok over Jerusalem
English King Richard led army against him
They finally formed a truce to share Jerusalem

4th crusade
Truce broke and new Christian army formed.
On their way, Christians got distracted and Muslims attacked Christian cities
Effects of crusade
European monarchs became more powerful
Christians and Muslims spent 200 years killing each other
Bad blood still remains

 

[rags747]

WWII for me but I do love all history. Just not enough time, maybe people born 50 years from now will live to be 200.

 

[rags747]

I am going to throw my hat in the ring for another historical event which just might be the one we are in now

Agreed, the most fantastic time ever to wake up every morning smiling and acknowledging that we live in the absolute best of times ever.

 

[rags747]

Should add the Apollo pgm too, have read so many books on that and never find it dull.

 

[Melonfeud]

Japan had like never lost a war. By that I mean in like thousands of years or something like that. They felt indestructible.

Militarily, Pearl Harbor did little damage.

Japan is the sole reason RUSSIA never fielded a blue water modern navy of worldly consequence( that and the lack of a year round warm water port)


The Philadelphia Experiment

strange how it quickly got the circuit breakers of public relations pulled so quickly thereafter

 

[Melonfeud]

Gotta say whomever designed Germany's uniforms in WWII...

I mean that just screams "We're the baddies".

They did put out some of the sharpest looking uniforms for a military ( IMO)
I love those spare magazine leather flap pistol holsters with a Russian Makarov pistol stuffed in it, it's slick,compact,lightweight& outta' the way and always handy while mounted up on Horseback or Harley.



* I was about 13 y.o. and an old WW11veteran/ oilfield worker loaned me his .32 acp **** stamped pistol rig to 'clean' ,,,I had to work on my mom pretty hard to buy me a box of bullets for it,,,,but it was totally flawless in function when I 'scored'those projo's,,,lol,,,pretty sure it was cleaner before he'd loaned it to me than when he'd gotten it back

 

[rags747]

Election Night 2016. I wish I could Groundhog that day for several months.

Months???? Years I tell you years!!!! Christmas 24/7/365...

 

[rags747]

Gotta say whomever designed Germany's uniforms in WWII...

I mean that just screams "We're the baddies".

Agreed, Germany's uniforms were super slick and bad***, best uniforms of all.

 

[rags747]

Roman Empire is also something I would like to learn more about.

 

[Runwildboys]

Gotta say whomever designed Germany's uniforms in WWII...

I mean that just screams "We're the baddies".

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[MichaelWinicki]

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Gotta say that state police uni is pretty sharp.

 

[Melonfeud]

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