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11-12-2018, 03:46 PM | #1 | |
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Nov 12th, 2018: 11 AM, 11 November, 1918 - The Great War Ends
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11-12-2018, 09:15 PM | #2 |
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One item that needs to be remembered is the effect the influenza pandemic had upon all sides in the war. It is now generally recognized that world wide somewhere between 50 and 100 million people died from the infection. There were so many soldiers rendered unable to perform their duties that all combatants could not continue fighting.
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11-12-2018, 10:50 PM | #3 |
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Yes, the Spanish Flu infected about 500 million around the world, even on the remotest islands of the South Pacific, killing 50 to 100 million.
But that wasn't the fault of the warring parties, besides half the soldiers who were in sick bay for the flu had really been in close contact with those European trollops.
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11-13-2018, 11:50 AM | #4 |
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The end of World War One is treated as ancient history. There is one American veteran still alive.
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11-13-2018, 12:23 PM | #5 |
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Yes indeed, when I was a kid there were several WW I vets in a town of 2000, and a ton of WW II vets. When my father died in 1999 his 82nd Airborne uniform was still hanging in the closet after half a dozen moves.
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