Why was World War I remarkable?

Answer 1

One of the most remarkable things about the war was the amount of people who signed up when was first broke out. Hundreds of people queued up to sign up to their local regiment. One of the biggest regiments was called the pals regiment. They were called this because they referred to the practise of keeping families, football teams and sometimes even whole towns together in the same regiment. This was another way of encouraging more and more people to sign up. Even though lots of people did sign up this ended in disaster, because so many of them died, this meant some towns lost nearly all the men that lived there, and lots of families were torn apart.