'Lights Out' to mark WW1 100th anniversary - BBC News

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Lights have been turned off around the UK in memory of the 17 million soldiers and civilians who were killed between 1914 and 1918 in World War One.
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[@James-xw8li]

The war to end all wars Yet it ended nothing

[@NormalChannel95]

It started another one.

[@bryanmanuelbaes7871]

It ended the rule of kings and emperors

[@columnedfox5508]

if it was a war to end all wars then why are we still fighting today? i don't get it

[@bryanmanuelbaes7871]

@@columnedfox5508 it was to the people during that time. They were anticipating a big war because of several reasons including nationalism, advancement in technology, and etc.. In my opinion it should be named ''the war to end monarchies''

[@NormalChannel95]

@Interventer The War To end all wars started Versailles which started another one meaning ww2 which started Cold War which started Korean, Vietnam war, every war between the 1950s to the 1990s.

[@geckosgaeilge1503]

100 years since it ended never forget

[@abdaias]

Today

[@daskriegsman7013]

Rip everyone from both sides.

[@Oser014]

Why not do that for all the nights that World War One lasted? Save some energy

[@ElCid48]

ZZZZZZ.

[@canman5060]

Save A LOT of energy and REMEMBERING all the war dead.

[@blonded0532]

I bet it’s gonna be awkward in Germany come 2045

[@carlosnl8842]

Rest in peace german and austria-hungry soldiers

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

Wow!

[@FYTJ]

In my hometown they decided to remember WWI by sounding the nuclear alarm. Which is silly if you ask me because celebrating that we didn't all die in the nuclear winter by pretending that the nuclear winter is coming seems absurd. They should've rang the bells instead. Plus it scared the bejeezus out of people including me.

[@youlie798]

lol no way, americans... i can imagine everyone running around screaming

[@FYTJ]

you lie Actually, I live in Luxembourg. And the unfortunate reason why we even have nuclear alarms at all is because the French are still heavily reliant on atomic energy but they build their nuclear plants at the borders. So that if things do go awry it's their neighbours who have to put up with the mess. It sucks to be neighbours with France.

[@youlie798]

FYTJ oh i see, sorry about the misunderstanding and thanks for clearing that up! yeah im from the uk and i bet u can tell what i think of being neighbours with france, they are the main reason the uk is full of immigrants

[@WM01129]

actually that was a good resemblance to WW1 since before every gas attack in civilian areas they used a siren that's close to the nuclear one since the "Mustard Gas" had no odor color or smell

[@canman5060]

Remembrance is always done in silence.

[@robertb4000]

September 1 2039 will be the 100th Anniversary of WW2. I would turn 29 at that time

[@theanti-christ2842]

4 years later and its 100 years since the war ended

[@Bojansakotic]

Greetings from Serbia...

[@Padre619]

*thanks for starting the war*

[@Bojansakotic]

Kaiser Wilhelm II You welcome fascist, and another time!

[@Padre619]

@@Bojansakotic lol fascist are you dumb, a member of the black hand (a Serb terrorist organization) shot archduke Franz Ferdinand, starting WW1

[@sovietww2radiooperator141]

4 years later

[@michaeldantepoet9863]

The poem I just posted commemorates the armistice. I hope the next 100 years is much more peaceful than the 20th Century was. My poem is told from the point of view of a martyred English soldier whose ghost is missing his family. My great grandfather was wounded in the trenches from mustard gas. My late father served in Aden and was wounded three times in action for his country. He left the British Army with PTSD and was a alcoholic for the rest of his life. His friend in Aden committed suicide because of the violence and the trauma he had witnessed. This is my take on the real damage that war has on families and society at large. Certainly, my father's trauma affected me greatly as a child, especially, his violent outbursts. The poem is published in my book, 'Psychotropolis' - (a collection of poems about Human Rights and Dignity), which you can get on Lulu. God Bless our Arm Forces, God Bless Her Majesty and God Bless all the fallen men, women and children from both wars on both sides... Peace!

[@canman5060]

100th anniversary for 'step in the back'.

[@gcnelite5983]

1. *stab 2. No

[@barasihombing1629]

Today is 100 Anniversary of the ending of Wwi

[@scottishguy399]

ShawnFlynn no it’s not

[@scottishguy399]

It’s November 11 at 11am

[@barasihombing1629]

@@scottishguy399 Im talking about the year tho

[@scottishguy399]

ShawnFlynn the what?

[@joeymedina5659]

He probably Bulgarian because WW1 ended for them first followed by Ottoman empire,Austria-hungarian Empire and Then Germany

[@michaelcook7924]

WELL GUSSY It's time to turn them back on NOW thats ITS THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF IT ENDING!!!

[@michaeldantepoet9863]

ARMISTICE I don’t think much of Armistice Day I’ve killed so many I cannot pray and to the living I say war is the wrong way. Have you heard the dead weeping for a mother or a wife? If you had you would end all war and not take another life. For Purgatory I’ve been bound in barbed wire for Christ’s sakes man let’s call a cease-fire. Listen to the bleeding flowers marshal my advice for thou know’st not the profanity of my sacrifice

[@bernardoduran9783]

0:13 Did he say 'a dramatic gesture' to turning off the lights of a bridge? Can you see my middle finger from there.. War, War never changes.