In 1999, while digging around her family's memorabila searching for
genealogy information, Eileen Phillips happened upon a collection of postcards.
her Great-Great-Aunt Alma Mueller's fiancé, had sent these postcards during his service in France with the AEF in World War One.
We scanned these postcards, intending to put them up as a website ..... and then I got interested in looking around the Web to see what was there about the Great War.
The subject has always interested me .... my grandfather, , served in the AEF in Europe, and had many stories about it. I saw the trench lines, or at least their remnants, in the mid-1950s, and was impressed that there were still areas that you could not go into, due to the danger of unexploded shells, mines and gas.
So anyway, this website just "sorta growed" out of all that. I've added some poetry by several well-known
poets (most of whom were killed in the Great War) and two songs about it by Eric Bogle that capture it the best of anything
I've ever heard.
There's also some links to places that cover either related subjects, or aspects of WW I that the standard history books don't talk much about.
The Great War ..... forever.
- J. Bethancourt
