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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21h

Beautiful piece! It recalls to me Tom Lea’s classic western landscapes and Maxfield Parrish’s use of texture and illumination.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21h

Superb take. It dovetails (for me at least) with the false idea of “let the generals loose so they can win the war.” As Clausewitz wrote with erudition, war is ultimately a political instrument of national objectives. Those strategic imperatives must be defined by political leaders.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21h

Paul Reed at @oldfrontline.bsky.social has a brilliant new video in which he analyzes 30 photos from the 1914 BEF. This is another of Paul’s very enjoyable and informative programmes. Highly recommended! #History #BEF #WesternFront #Mons #LeCateau #BritishArmy #FWW #WW1

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The Old Contemptibles: 1914 Through 30 Original Photographs

YouTube video by Old Front Line

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm currently listening to the audible version of #RotK, narrated by the great Andy Serkis. This is one of my favourite passages in #LotR. I've read it so many times, yet am still deeply moved by the reunion of two soldiers after battle. Pp. 892-93 of the 1991 edition. @gracekhuri.bsky.social

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Lost Battalion was an American unit that became separated from the American advance and surrounded by German forces. From Oct 2-7 1918 they resisted German attacks until an American force was able to relieve them. Of about 554 men 197 were lost, 150 taken prisoner and the remaining 194 rescued.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was in grade school in the 60s. Scholastic Books fairs were a yearly event where kids like me could look and touch all of the beautiful books. But my parents couldn’t afford to buy them.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I recently picked up a copy of “Over the Top” by Arthur Lambert. The author served with the HAC on the Western Front. My copy originally belonged to Horace G. Sennitt, who was in the same unit. He carefully made notations on the margins throughout the book. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my horses stepped on my foot a couple of days ago. I nudged him to get off me and he just stood there like a brick munching his hay. I imagine the same sort of reaction-- "not my problem, human..."

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was the view through my windscreen driving west at sunset. Just a beatiful evening! #Oregon #PNW #sunset

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Indian Expeditionary Force A were absolute heroes in 1914. Their performance on the Western Front was first-rate.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've watched a handful of these programmes. It feels awfully pretentious to publish a greatest of the century list when we still have 75 years to go. It should read, "The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (so far.)"

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I see photos like this one, it always makes me wonder what those lads were thinking at that moment.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"At Rest" by Matt Gauldie, 2006, NZ National Army Museum. This striking yet somber piece shows a modern soldier with child at the National War Memorial (NewZealand) in #Wellington, #NZ. The simple and austere composition speaks to how we remember the fallen. #WW1 #GreatWar #combatart #kiwi #war

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Army beats these unhealthy thinking patterns into soldiers. I’ve been retired for 25 years and still find it hard to break out of Army-think.

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

22 September 1918 Wilfred Owen writes to Siegfried Sassoon ‘You said it would be a good thing for my poetry if I went back. That is my consolation for feeling a fool. This is what the shells scream at me every time: Haven’t you got the wits to keep out of this? #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Mud Road to Passchendaele" by D.W. Culham, 1917, #CanadianWarMuseum collection. This magnificent piece depicts the 3rd Canadian Division Ammunition Column moving towards the front at night. #WW1 #FWWHist #History #Canadians #CEF #arty #artillery #ammunition

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't they just….. #BookSky

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks so much for the kind words. My wife and I have been attending the No Kings protests, but I wonder if they’re really an effective means of resistance. Our mid-term elections are 43 days away. We’re all holding our breath to see what the fascists will do to stop the vote.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was 18 when The Silmarillion was first published. As an LotR fan, I bought a copy that first day. I couldn’t get through it! But now I think it’s a beautifully crafted and nuanced book. It’s an incredible achievement.

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21 September 1914: The poem, "For the Fallen", by Robert Laurence Binyon, was published in The Times newspaper. #History #Poetry #WW1 "For the Fallen", by Robert Laurence Binyon: www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/lauren...

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For the Fallen Poem by Laurence Binyon

For the Fallen poem including the famous verse beginning They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m gonna stick my neck out here. This dude’s not really wrong. I mean, he’s kinda righter than I wish he was. You see this being manifested in most NTC rotations, to cite one example. Anyway, I’ve got my k-pot close, just in case…

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would pay top dollar to see Beavis & Butthead taking The One Ring to the Crack of Doom. Crack… doom … he he he he.

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Playing Around Butt-head

ALT: Playing Around Butt-head

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for this. It’s so discouraging to watch things we’ve sacrificed and fought for to be ripped to shreds every day.

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Hell of Ieper in 1917, with the worst wet weather in 70 years. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I initially discovered "Some Reflections of a Soldier" while reading the anthology "Vain Glory," published in 1937. The essay was abridged and altered extensively in comparison with the original version from 1916. For comparison, here is the link to the 1937 version. archive.org/details/in.e...

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Vain Glory

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.176613dc.contributor.author: Guy Chapmandc.contributor.other: Ccldc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-07T04:55:03Zdc.date.available: 2015-07-07T04:55:03Zdc.date...

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Incredibly, the essay "Some Reflections of a Soldier" is avaiable to read online. Here is the direct link to the page number in the 21/10/1916 issue of "The Nation." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here is an outstanding essay that a soldier wrote to "The Nation." It was published in the 21/10/1916 issue on pp. 104-106. This was a frank and realistic oped from the trenches to the living rooms of British homes. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy #Tommy #History

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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tanks went into battle for the first time #OTD in 1916 at at Flers-Courcelette during the Battle of the Somme. Many broke down or were disabled by German artillery, but they still had enough of an impact to change war forever. #tanks #history #WWI #WW1

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD in 1917 NURSES 👇🧵 ‘The Angel’ #Illustration by Franz (Frank) Xavier Leyendecker (1877-1924) ‘The Red Cross Nurse by Arthur Hunt Chute [1890-1929]’ *Leslie’s*, Sept. 16, 1917 #illustrationart #illustrationartists #FrankXLeyendecker #nursing #RedCross #WW1 #ArthurHuntChute

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We knew more about the big picture that day than fire and police commanders on the ground. Every one of those firefighters was a hero. Have you read “102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers?”

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102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Su…

"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what…

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Great War Huts @greatwarhuts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Day 6 of our #HeritageOpenDays exhibition: #BeyondTheUniform Ten Lives in Ten Days, we tell the story of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, VC. He led the hesitant men of 7/KOSB into action by playing their Regimental March. We are displaying the Bible he was carrying on that day.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

108 years ago today on 15 September 1916, British tanks first saw action. The innovative design, with caterpillar tracks completely encircling a rhomboid hull, enabled them to cross trenches that would defeat more modern tanks. (Imperial War Museum www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) #WW1 #FWW

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

15 September 1916 Private John Gill (48663) Royal Army Medical Corps was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. John is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13 September 1918 Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. A soldier of the 6th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment), and a German signboard Kronprinzenstr. Inchy. 📸 IWM Q 7065 #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sharing more of my research titled "WWII U.S. Military Suicide." This slide is part of the much larger overall project. You can watch the entire presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gy_.... Please contact 988 or 911 in the U.S. for help. International: blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotl....

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This clip, IWM 501-10, shows Harry J. Adams, First sergeant, Company K, 353rd Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, of Rochester, NY. On Sep 12 1918 he emptied his revolver into a house. Then with an empty gun he took the 375 German who came out of the house as POWs www.usar.army.mil/WWI/ImageGal...

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I belong to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. #FFRF has a great monthly newspaper and they publish the crankmail in every issue. Here are a couple of gems from the 9/26 issue that I couldn’t resist sharing. #freethought

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's an Autochrome of me last weekend out in my trench section behind my house. I built this section with about 500 sand bags and it's for a video project I'm working on.

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