The right call, given how little of the war was left & the toll of the pandemic. In September 1918, 96,000 men lined up in Boston to register for the draft. Many of them died of the Spanish flu; not a one ever made it to the Western Front.https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1245842014958223361 …
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That what makes the call even more amazing
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Definitely a shift from the 19th century, when losing more men to disease than battle was routine.
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