re: WTF is wrong with the French?

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I always wondered how our fighting spirit would've been if we faced the casualties that France faced during ww1. The only thing they lacked in morale was machinegunners pointing their barrells at

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1914 America would never had put up with those kinds of numbers over a sustained amount of years like the French did, we were an entirely different people then. Of course our situation was very different than France’s as well.

But for our part, our casualty rate in the First World War was not appreciably lower than any of the other major combatants. We just weren’t in the war as long.