“I don’t object to fighting huns, but I object to them fighting me!” Very funny but sure that for virtually all conscientious objectors the truth was the opposite. They would’ve been happy to take the same risks as any others, it’s the killing of enemy conscripts they couldn’t bring themselves to do.
If they were happy to take the same risks, why didn't more of them join up as medics and stretcher bearers. As many brave men did. Maybe because most of them weren't that brave!
Apols for the length. Go to Tynecott and stand in the middle of thousands of graves of allied servicemen and then go to the German cemetery at Langemark with over 44,000, 1/2 buried in a mass grave, go as I have done and see how you feel. Absolute carnage. My Scottish Grandad never recovered mentally from losing his 2 brothers on the Somme, one who was only 15, never found, and now a name on a memorial and the other at least has a grave, and my Irish Grandad survived it with tne loss of a lung. Another of my Great Uncles died there too. I stood on a little road in Belgium and if I looked for around 3/4 of a mile either side of it over 1/2 a million men died. Think of why that soil is so fertile. I have stood where they have stood and felt the crass stupidity of such a loss of a generation of young lives. Without all the crap propaganda, conscription and social pressures of the time both German and Brits would be buying each other pints in the pub. Ask yourself how the survivors were treated when the came home? And who made the profits? McIntyre
So sad, God Bless all the brave young men that suffered. I have no words that express my gratitude for their bravery. God Bless each and everyone of them 😣
He was not singing about his war experience; he was making fun of conscientious objectors because at the time of the war outbreak, men refusing to volunteer was a sign of cowardice and not caring about your country.
+Rossignol You were given the white feather if you didn't fight if you were able to. I heard some people when they were given the feather they threw it away.
+Haydonski it was the women who gave them the white feather and if you were given that, you were seen as a coward. back then there was conscription too so you were basically forced to join. some went to front but did jobs that didn't involve having to fight. others weren't so lucky and sent to prison.
Anyone in this god damned war should be proud of their Service, They did it for their country and us as people. Both sides included, Central and Entente. If any of these souls wanted to do a life swap i'd gladly do it for them for their service.
> they did it for their country Dying for an amorphous blob you really only associate with due to Stockholm syndrome doesn't sound like much of a reason to be proud. Not that you could if you're, y'know, dead. But if you know more about dead people's emotional capacity than me I'm glad if you can enlighten me.
@@jamessmith7462 There's a line between respect and blind glorification, Great War ultimately led to absolutely nothing but suffering and reaching depths of human insanity. It's a case study in heights of madness we can reach as a species. There's nothing to be proud of in service of the "The Pointless War" and all I feel for the young souls consumed by horrible promise of glory and pride is pity.
“I don’t object to fighting huns, but I object to them fighting me!”
Very funny but sure that for virtually all conscientious objectors the truth was the opposite. They would’ve been happy to take the same risks as any others, it’s the killing of enemy conscripts they couldn’t bring themselves to do.
If they were happy to take the same risks, why didn't more of them join up as medics and stretcher bearers.
As many brave men did.
Maybe because most of them weren't that brave!
@@gazza2933 Cause that would be helping the war effort. They wanted the opposite.
@@gazza2933 yeah it's super brave to fight for nothing. Everyone who fought in WW1 wasted their lives. Or had their lives wasted by those in power.
Bullshit
Apols for the length. Go to Tynecott and stand in the middle of thousands of graves of allied servicemen and then go to the German cemetery at Langemark with over 44,000, 1/2 buried in a mass grave, go as I have done and see how you feel. Absolute carnage. My Scottish Grandad never recovered mentally from losing his 2 brothers on the Somme, one who was only 15, never found, and now a name on a memorial and the other at least has a grave, and my Irish Grandad survived it with tne loss of a lung. Another of my Great Uncles died there too. I stood on a little road in Belgium and if I looked for around 3/4 of a mile either side of it over 1/2 a million men died. Think of why that soil is so fertile. I have stood where they have stood and felt the crass stupidity of such a loss of a generation of young lives. Without all the crap propaganda, conscription and social pressures of the time both German and Brits would be buying each other pints in the pub. Ask yourself how the survivors were treated when the came home? And who made the profits? McIntyre
So sad, God Bless all the brave young men that suffered. I have no words that express my gratitude for their bravery. God Bless each and everyone of them 😣
Hell I dont blame this guy, this war was terrible
He was not singing about his war experience; he was making fun of conscientious objectors because at the time of the war outbreak, men refusing to volunteer was a sign of cowardice and not caring about your country.
+Rossignol You were given the white feather if you didn't fight if you were able to. I heard some people when they were given the feather they threw it away.
+Haydonski it was the women who gave them the white feather and if you were given that, you were seen as a coward. back then there was conscription too so you were basically forced to join. some went to front but did jobs that didn't involve having to fight. others weren't so lucky and sent to prison.
Crazyomeo10cp has it right. The song writer was making fun of consciences objectors... but we're all allowed to interpret however we'd like I guess.
Anyone in this god damned war should be proud of their Service, They did it for their country and us as people. Both sides included, Central and Entente. If any of these souls wanted to do a life swap i'd gladly do it for them for their service.
A Non it’s because he respects them so much which I do aswell who doesn’t
> they did it for their country
Dying for an amorphous blob you really only associate with due to Stockholm syndrome doesn't sound like much of a reason to be proud. Not that you could if you're, y'know, dead. But if you know more about dead people's emotional capacity than me I'm glad if you can enlighten me.
@@jamessmith7462 There's a line between respect and blind glorification, Great War ultimately led to absolutely nothing but suffering and reaching depths of human insanity. It's a case study in heights of madness we can reach as a species. There's nothing to be proud of in service of the "The Pointless War" and all I feel for the young souls consumed by horrible promise of glory and pride is pity.
@@Fingrek And yet. The world is in a much worse place than it was back in the early 20th century.
Sure you would lmao
There was this more modern version of this it sounded like a remaster but I can’t find it
Have you found it yet
Is that Eddie Morton?
Lets start a chain: Perhaps you wonder what I am, I will explain to you
My conscience is the only thing that helps to pull me through
Objection is a thing that I have studied thoroughly,
I don't object to fighting huns but hate them fighting me
Non-Combatant battalions, are fairly in my line
But the sergeant always hates me and he calls me "baby mine",
It's the time of day to laugh at the yellow bellied conscientious objectors.
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Pfc. Desmond T. Doss might have an objection or two to that statement.
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