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Originally Posted by T@T
Unfortunately my uncle wouldn't have helped as the minute the war was brought up he would leave the room. I realize I'm making him look a little crazy but he actually was a great guy who mostly hid his bad memory's and lived to the ripe age of 86 or 87. He actually taught me how to clean my first rifle.
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I don't think that makes him look crazy... To be honest I think that is fairly common?
And perhaps how some people dealt with their PTSD?
Going into WW1, many nations youths were excited, and even romanticized the idea of war. Go to war, be a hero, come home, get laid. They didn't have a real reference point of the type of brutality that war constituted. Not to mention up until that point, swords and horses were the norm, not maxim machine guns. I hope that never happens to a generation of our nations youth.
Please tell me that first rifle was a Enfield.
