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To: CIB-173RDABN

Yep, you are correct. I believe World War I was the first war (for Americans, anyway) where disease wasn’t the #1 killer of soldiers. Advances in medicine, nutrition and food preservation (bad tinned meats sickened a lot of guys in the Spanish-American War), and so on.


26 posted on 02/05/2014 3:09:23 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
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To: DemforBush

But then the flu epidemic right after the war killed more than WWI itself.


27 posted on 02/05/2014 3:16:25 PM PST by Argus
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