I think that pretty much all of the WW1 vets are gone, we're rapidly seeing WW2 and Korean War vets die.
While from a Canadian standpoint WW1 established us as more then a British colony.
From a historical perspective it was a war that the world was dragged into due to political agreements.
From a individual stanpoint, it started as a highly romanticized concept. A chance for the young generation to go out and fight and to come home covered in metals, the last gentleman's war where the Brits cried out, "Home by Christmas"
It became one of the ugliest most brutal wars in history and a great cause of human misery. We saw the rise of machine guns, and armored unts and the air war and the heavy use of submarines.
It set the stage for the rise of extreme facism and Communism. It created the generation of monstrous leaders that lead to the hideousness of the unstable 20th century.
And it was started by one bullet fired by a nobody that killed a nobody. the starting shot that killed millions upon millions.
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