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To: SunkenCiv

I worked with an old guy who had been a medic at the battle of the bulge. He told me several of the wounded survived because their wounds froze and stopped the bleeding. That image has stuck with me for fifty years. Imagine the cold and the suffering.


43 posted on 12/19/2022 5:24:38 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods; cowboyusa; 5inch38gunner

One of my old Sunday school teachers got wounded pretty badly during the Bulge, was aboard an evac ship on the way to England, minding its own business, but the Germans sank it (not sure how, maybe it was a passive sinking via a mine). He survived this, I think all or most of the crew and patients managed to get rescued, but WTH man. I’ll try to get the details straightened out.


51 posted on 12/19/2022 9:28:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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