Expect people are going to talk about this like they do some of the madder scenes from the World Wars. Can you imagine what it would have been like in the siege of Leningrad? Fighting in the mud fields of Paschendale? It's funny--you read these stories . . .
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or hear them--
@HardcoreHistory is really very good at this--and then four hours later you set down your book or close the podcast and get on with your day, left with just a fleeting recollection of the nightmare you've been imagining. Less than a spooky campfire yarn.2 replies 1 retweet 32 likesShow this thread -
This isn't going to go away when we close our browser tabs or flip off the teevee. It's going to stay out there killing people en masse and no one is going to forget that their parents and family and friends are at risk.
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We're going to watch footage of the dead and dying whenever we close our eyes, as long as this goes on and maybe til the end of our days.
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My grandfather is 96 years old. He fought in the Ardennes when he was 21, and seventy years later at a Christmas party something about the snow sparked a memory of the war. Not fighting per se; but corpse duty.
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See, the woods were full of dead men, and they couldn't leave them for thaw or there might be contagion. So, corpse duty. Very simple: go into the woods, find corpse, drag it back to camp for disposal. He told us this story out of nowhere, and ended, "I didn't like that much."
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entirely appropriate tbh
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