Imagine you're a 17-year-old soldier from Bayonne, NJ
in a trench somewhere in France and this
is what you're seeing over your head...
Trench warfare in 1917. Competing artillery
and projectiles raining on enemy positions.
Having never actually watched the show (never- I swear), I knew that Whoopi was about as black as it gets, but I had no idea that she ...
My granduncle Walter was a 19 yo private in the U.S. Signal corps stationed in France - on the front lines. He kept a diary and his daughter preserved a lot of the letters he sent home. The stories are all understated, but he saw some up close shit. I was pretty young when he died so I never got to ask him about it.
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