GayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 days agoTrump to rename Veterans Day as ‘Victory Day for World War I’ hexbear.netimagemessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1111arrow-down1imageTrump to rename Veterans Day as ‘Victory Day for World War I’ hexbear.netGayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square65linkfedilinkfile-text
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-rename-veterans-day-victory-day-for-world-war-i-00323118
minus-squareSamotsvetyVIA [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agowhy did they call world war one world war one?
minus-squareanaesidemus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoYou joke, probably, but they called it the Great War at the time or even the “war to end all wars” “Surely we won’t do it again but worse a few decades later”
minus-squareSamotsvetyVIA [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoSo, it was called the Great War, but not because it was great?
minus-squareanaesidemus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoyeah, I’ve heard it kinda sucked
minus-squareEiren (she/her)@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days ago…Great in size, like how the “great” white shark is so named because it’s the largest living predatory shark.
why did they call world war one world war one?
You joke, probably, but they called it the Great War at the time or even the “war to end all wars”
“Surely we won’t do it again but worse a few decades later”
So, it was called the Great War, but not because it was great?
yeah, I’ve heard it kinda sucked
…Great in size, like how the “great” white shark is so named because it’s the largest living predatory shark.