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neomage2021 t1_iwsks64 wrote

Reply to comment by Well_why_not1953 in TIL: WW1 Armistice Day was Nov 11th, fighting was to cease at 11:00 AM. An American solider charged a German machine gun nest with 16 mins left, and died at 10:59 AM. The last soldier to die in WWI. by wats6831

Can't read can you? Last to die in battle on the western front of wwI

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Well_why_not1953 t1_iwsplqg wrote

Yes i can read quite well but evidently I was too subtle for you. I was illustrating a point. (pointing out a fact) I have seen war first hand. Always worried about the last to die. I now know that they continue dying. So the man who received the distinction of being the last to die was actually not the last. Just because others took longer to die does not mean they did not die in combat on the western front. If you had seen these things you would understand it.

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neomage2021 t1_iwspzd1 wrote

No, if they died later they definitely didn't die in combat on the western front. That's not how space and time work. Were they casualties of war, absolutely, of course they were.

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