If you didn’t see it, it’s gone. However, I thought I would share with you a fascinating exhibit that came to town. I had a chance to run down to Boeing Field to the Museum of Flight on a recent Sunday afternoon. I had read an article that an exhibit about WWI was being held on the tarmac in front of the museum. Although small (held in a very large semi-truck that could be moved from location to location), the exhibit was excellent. Somehow in a very few words and pictures, the introductory film unraveled the tangle of politics and alliances that brought about the first world war and clearly explained how an assignation in a small country would lead to millions dying. While it exhibited the usual uniforms, etc. it concentrated on the small items that soldiers carried and also how the wounded were treated, as well as the dead. For instance, following the war, the government sent Gold Star mothers to Europe to visit their son’s graves. WWI is becoming a forgotten war. It is a shame. What the soldiers had to endure and casualties that were incurred were horrific. An entire generation of young men died. While the US brought home a number of their KIA’s (the Brits didn’t), one of the cemeteries US soldiers are buried in is Flanders Field. A thought to remember when you are handing out Poppies in a few days.
