A little perspective

All casualties are terrible. This counting of casualties by the press, as if the 300th, or the 1000th, had any extra meaning over the 1st one, is just wrong. Well, here's an accounting of casualties. THIS is what war used to be like.

From A TANGLED WEB, posted on July12th: Today is the 90th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele one of the bloodiest battles ever fought. Around 310,000 Allied soldiers and around 260,000 German soldiers were killed or wounded during the battle.