I am so much in love with the way that you can see how the war affected technology's advance - it really hurried things along, especially all the items that are very much prototypical, but mass produced that way and sent to work in the fields anyway! The field radios, for example, had all of their wiring exposed. Nothing had a 'finished' housing or look, like you see on all of our technology today - most of it was just the barest of workings nailed into a crude wooden box!

Well even WW1 is the continuation of unfolding European politics dating back even to the Napoleonic era and beyond, with all those monarchies having blood ties and alliances - which meant when one domino started falling...

The WW1 museum is really, really excellent. I was genuinely surprised - I've been to the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. as well, and you know you don't expect something on that level here in Kansas City. (Where culture is... um, questionable at best.) Really, though, it is on par with that experience - really an incredible place with lots of friendly volunteers. If you ever are in the area, it's a super awesome place to check out.