After researching and looking through some of the diaries letters and other memorobilia, I have engaged interest in WW1. I've never given much thought as I do now to the Great war, but instead considered it an unconcerning event that was so long ago that it has nothing to do with me, and not realizing its vast importance. I am slowly understanding that this war was not so long ago and the men fighting in it were people like me. Other than the clothes and some of the new crazy languages we teenagers speak now, these men were more or less just like me. These thoughts along with the various memorobilia I looked at are showing me the true realism of this war.

 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9257/5964
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/document.php?CISOROOT=/gwa&CISOPTR=8951&CISOSHOW=3638&DMSCALE=75&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMMODE=viewer&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9315/5500
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/2784?CISOBOX=1&REC=1
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/3469?CISOBOX=1&REC=10

Sources

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-1.htm
http://www.greatwhitefleet.info/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/greatfleet.html

GWF Research

I learned from the online articles the history of the 16 ships. I learned where they stopped and the different problems they had such as coal shortage.