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financialanon t1_ix8zs8t wrote

I always think how utterly miserable it must have been back then. Hiking all over in the cold and wet, eating whatever gruel was available, getting infections and illness. Using outhouses in the cold. No antibiotics, painkillers, or heat.

We are so soft these days.

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waterandweights t1_ix9rngq wrote

Say goodbye to your wife. Hike for weeks to months. Tired, weak, sick. Show up to battlefield and get stabbed by a rusty bayonet.

Wounded for days then die in agony.

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PatmygroinB t1_ixcjnfp wrote

Or have a cannonball take off a leg, and continuing to have to March after the battle

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