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[QUOTE="VAMike23, post: 2909365, member: 150"]
I have often read that more than a few historians consider WWI as a dividing line between eras.   With WWI came the idea that, as you said, millions could perish in a conflict -- and the idea that you could use things like mustard gas on a huge scale -- and the nightmarish mode of fighting in those immense lines, running out of the trenches into certain slaughter.  Everything became mass-this and mass-that.   It just seemed like the world exploded and lost all of its sense.  The ugliness of the modernity that burst forth from WWI was in many ways unprecedented.  It is this same ugliness and madness that we desperately try to keep restrained today, though we often fail, as the many horrific conflicts around the world can attest--Yemen, Myanmar, etc., or on a smaller scale, the mass-shootings we seem to have here in the States with some regularity.  The beat goes on.

At least there was the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914, but it was never to be repeated.  A last gasp for civilization.
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