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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilverSeeker who wrote (6358)	4/14/2005 3:15:50 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

The loss in manpower and brain power was terrific. I have wondered about this too. The best chemist of our times, Mosely, was lost in the first world war at the age of 26. Even at that young age his theoretical contribution was staggering. He was a signalman. There is a place for each person's contribution, but I think Mosely was best used behind the lines. There must be thousands of other examples. The Germans lost millions in a fairly small population. The US lost 30,000 airmen in the second world war. The Russians lost 20 million souls. This kind of weeding of a genetic base cannot be good for a population. If my grandfather had not wet down a rag and dived into a shellhole he would have been lost to chlorine gas 12 years before he met my grandmother. They should have told them that chlorine is heavier than air, but at least the shellholes saved them from bullets. The wet rags they used instead of gas masks dissolved the chlorine. The gas masks were a porkbarrel contract and badly designed. I tried one on 60 years after the war and it was impossible to get more than a few breaths through it. After fifteen minutes the men were exhausted and had to rip the damn things off. The gas was so heavy that he lost every hair on his body permanently. (Ypres). The British and CDN troops still held the line despite the useless masks. Many years after the war the majority of the survivors were permanent invalids in Sunnybrook, with perhaps 15% lung capacity left. If my grandfather walked behind a car when it was running he would keep right over. They could have used him as a canary in a coal mine. EC<:-}