Where does the letter begin and shirt end?
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Jesus, that's weird. Is it just a bizarre optical illusion, or is there some photoshoppery / AI generation weirdness going on here?
If you look at his middle figures they appear to be underneath the paper. It just isn't very big
Ah! I can see it now. Upping the contrast a bit helps.
It's essentially a scroll he's unrolling, why I don't know all the WW1 military mail I can find is regular if not a bit small envelopes.
I think the envelope is in his left hand toward the bottom. Looks rolled up a bit. The letter looks like it either bends or is unrolling at his middle fingers.
Why would a father son both be at war and both in the same region? That's crazy, you'd think they would try to avoid that sort of thing
Just like Pal Battalions, we didn't realize how bad of an idea this was until after WW1
Not enough I suppose, you can still do battle buddies in the us military. I didn't think they can be direct relatives though.
Historically this is actually extremely common.
I guess they were regimented by region. I can't imagine as a father, focusing on anything but making sure my son survives, fuck orders.
The most feared Roman soldiers were small team gay lover squads (The band of thebes).
Their only defeat came at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), against Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. It is written that Philip, after the fight, took a view of the slain; coming upon the place where the three hundred that fought his phalanx lay dead together and, understanding that it was the band of lovers, he wept. Around 300 BC, the town of Thebes erected a giant stone lion on a pedestal at the burial site of the Sacred Band that still stands today.
Greek. Thebes and the Sacred Band are Greek.
You're right.
It's really interesting how Germans are portrayed in both world wars. I think we all take some distance when thinking about WW1 and its both sides, but WW2 is still something considered recent, and still relevant today, so portraying Nazi Germans in the same way it's done here would be much more controversial.
The Nazis were also pretty unambiguously worse than Imperial Germany, Imperial Germany being pretty standard-level shitheaddery for their time period.
Which is perhaps damnation by faint praise, but still.
War is hell, man...
Which was which?
Hans and Friedrich found the first Gameboy on the battlefield.