Wednesday, September 10, 2014

End of WWI

Here is another missed opportunity. About a week ago was the 60th anniversary of the start of WWII. Why didn't I hear anything about that? I'm I just not paying attention? I don't watch the news often, but I think pretty much every day I go to cnn.com and check out what they have. They've got a lot of articles there and so how is that not one of them? If the can include a video that's gone viral of a puppy playing with string, I think they can have something on the start of WWII.

But back to WWI. I've got a list of mysteries I would like solved. Some have already been solved as far as I'm concerned. They include - Who shot Martin Luther King (Answer: James Earl Ray); who shot John Kennedy (Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald, all by himself); how did Meriwether Lewis die (Answer: Suicide). Here is another one. At the end of WWI, they signed the armistice papers in a train outside of Paris. Then to rub their noses in it, Hitler used the same train to have the French surrender. Whatever happened to that train? It seems like that would be a big historical landmark. Mystery solved. I found a site on the internet that talked about it and had a bunch of historical and present day pictures. Hitler had the train taken back to Germany. At the end of the war, it was destroyed, so the Allies couldn't have it back. The location of the signing still exists and there is a concrete slab showing the former location of the train. I'll have to make a list of what mysteries I have left. I don't think there are too many.

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