http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6921217.stm

- As remarkable and spine-tingling as this is, it really is in many ways very sad. I think there are only a few old fellows left in Britain who served in WW1, one of which lived quite close to me until recently, serving at the Battle of Jutland - which is crazy!

But soon I fear WW1 will become very much like those wars at the close of the nineteenth century - Russo-Japanese war, Boer War, Spanish-American war, etc. Mere historical events, no longer human memories and personal experiences. And so too will WW2, within a matter of decades (barely two, I'd wager).

Yet it is still amazing to see men like this, with memories of such great historical events, still alive somehow.

As an exclamation mark to what Halo said, WW1 brings up great emotion in me (due to studying it in school, and ironically partly due to Young Indiana Jones as a kid) because it's something "attached" to me due to it being recent history. WW2 has similar emotional and intellectual values as I can sit hours on end glued to war documentaries.

But the other wars you mentioned? Never heard of them.

// Kiv - ignant foo.

Exactly.And I bet the current 11-16 year olds will have the same memory/experience in regards to WW1 when they're our age.

Well, even now you'd be hard pressed for the common_person_01 to remember who fought who in WW1, let alone the battlefields where hundreds of thousands died in mere days.

halo, you only know about every war in the history of mankind because your country has been in 100% of them =/

That's not true, we were never involved in the Punic Wars!

But since Rome was, weren't you involved by proxy?! Don't deny it, pal!

+rep to wiggo

I canne deny it.

There was a British auxilliary unit at the Battle of Zante. The British Poppycockers.