[mass55th]

"My great uncle was a farm boy and lied when he was 15 to get into army. Artillery (as was Harry Trunan). Saw the worst of WW 1 in France and wouldn’t talk about it ever more."

Although my great-uncle served with the Canadian Forces, he was killed in France two months before the Armistice. That was a horrible war.

[Bonemaker]

It was horrible and both sides lost 100’s of thousand of European manhood. Between that and WW2 losses, Europe will probably never fully recover.