re: 108 years ago today: the nightmare of Verdun began

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WWI soldiers were a different breed for sure. When we think life’s hard, imagine going through that 5 minute sound file on repeat for years. Then if you were lucky enough to survive, you come home and go through the Great Depression. Then you get through that and you have to watch your kids get shipped off to WWII.

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Those hard times created hard men that created the good times that our generation and our parents’ generation grew up in.