re: No other country has a cemetery here, but we have cemeteries there.

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as do I. I think in large part because it’s such a large blind spot for Americans, particularly because we aren’t educated very well about the topic. (or weren’t)

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The sheer amount of violence that occurred along the trench lines is unfathomable. I would love to hear what peak artillery sounded like on the first day of the Verdun attack...