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2021-04-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

They lived in the company of corpses: In some of the most raw, shattering accounts of the Great War, soldiers, medics and those left to grieve tell visceral stories in heartbreaking letters, diaries and memoirs

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-16 09:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Or you can read:

A Rifleman Went to War
- Herbert McBride

I know, forever since a TWIB. This book is a great first hand account of training and participation, and not written by Corporal Upham.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-16 11:03|| 2021-04-16 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the most haunting parts of The Lord of the Rings is the Dead Marshes -- a flooded former battleground, where you can still see the corpses of the dead beneath the shallow water.

It was inspired by Tolkien's experience in the trenches of WWI.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-16 11:45|| 2021-04-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Well at least they didn’t have to live with the horror of being mis-pronoun-ed !

/sarc
Going to have to pick this up

Pronouns: Don’t care, been called worse, sometimes accurately

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-04-16 14:22|| 2021-04-16 14:22|| Front Page Top

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